NPE Executive Director,
Carol Burris
, and journalist
Je
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Bryant
were the authors of this re-port. We thank them for their extensive research and analysis. Thank you to
Leigh Dingerson
for her skilled and careful editing of the report, as well as her advice regarding structure and content.Thanks also to the Network for Public Education’s Director of Communications,
Darcie Cimarusti
, who designed this report.
Darcie Cimarusti
and
Marla Kilfoyle
of NPE also con-tributed to research e
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orts. We are also grateful to researcher and scholar
Roxana Marachi
for her summary of the prob-lems associated with the CMO known as Rocketship.The report would not have been possible without the e
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ort and commitment of the Board of Di-rectors of the Network for Public Education (NPE), with special thanks to
Diane Ravitch
, Presi-dent of NPE. Diane generously gave her support, guidance and advice throughout the writing of this report. Finally, thank you to all of our generous donors who make our work in support of public educa-tion possible. This report was funded solely by the Network for Public Education.
The Network for Public Education
(NPE)
is an advocacy group whose mission is to preserve, promote, improve and strengthen public schools for both current and future generations of stu-dents. The goal of NPE is to connect all those who are passionate about our schools – students, parents, teachers and citizens. We share information and research on vital issues that concern the future of public education at a time when it is under attack. For more information, please visit our website at
www.networkforpubliceducation.org
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Acknowledgements
Carol Burris
is the Executive Director of the Network for Public Education. Carol served as principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY from 2000 to 2015. She received her doctorate from Teachers College in 2003. In 2010, she was recognized by the New York School Administrators Association as their Outstanding Educator of the Year, and in 2013 she was again recognized by NASSP as the New York State High School Principal of the Year. Carol has co-au-thored three books on educational equity, and served as a consultant on desegregation cases for the U.S. Department of Justice. She is the author or co-author of numerous journal articles on educational equity, teacher evaluation, and detracking. Carol is a frequent guest blogger for the Answer Sheet of
The
Washington Post
.
Je
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Bryant
is a communications expert and advocacy journalist whose award-winning re-porting and commentaries have been published by Salon, AlterNet,
The Progressive
, and
The Washington Post
. He currently serves as a Chief Correspondent and Writing Fellow for the Inde-pendent Media Institute's Our Schools project, and he is the Director of the Education Opportuni-ty Network, a public education advocacy center created through a partnership between the Schott Foundation for Public Education and the Campaign for America's Future.
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About the Authors