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	<description>A mom&#039;s view of charter schools.</description>
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		<title>Ugly is as ugly does</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are getting crappy grades, you&#8217;re probably ugly too.
At least that&#8217;s what a recent study conducted by the University of Miami shows. The Examiner has the story http://www.examiner.com/x-2157-Charter-Schools-Examiner~y2009m4d25-Weird-school-news-attractive-students-better-learners-pot-brownies-KIPP-union. I just want to know who conducted the study. I&#8217;m going to guess it was not the jocks.
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		<title>Charter school week, unions and enrollment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a whirl-wind of a week!
Colorado Charter Schools celebrated its 15 year anniversary April 2nd, 2009.
And what better way to get the party started than inviting a bunch of charter schools and a few HUNDRED of their friends to rally on the step of the capitol building.
Senate President Groff graced us once more with his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charterschoolmom.com/blog/2009/04/06/charter-school-week-unions-and-enrollment/</link>
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		<title>Crappy schools don&#8217;t &#8220;cream&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know which schools are never accused of “creaming” for enrollment?—Crappy schools.
I have never, not once, heard of a school with an awful reputation and terrible academic ratings be charged with attracting the best students. Suppose it would be difficult to imagine a school drawing the best of the best and achieve the worst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charterschoolmom.com/blog/2009/03/30/crappy-schools-dont-cream/</link>
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		<title>31 Flavors of Public Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few are the people that don&#8217;t like ice-cream. Perhaps I don&#8217;t remember meeting any anti-ice-cream-eaters because &#8220;weirdies&#8221; get filed in the black-hole of my memory.
This blog is for us &#8220;non-weirdies&#8221; who have appreciation for cold, sweet, drippy ice-cream.
Good schools are just like ice-cream. Traditional, magnets, and charters&#8211;they are all ice-cream&#8211;just different in flavor. Our quality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charterschoolmom.com/blog/2009/03/25/31-flavors-of-public-education/</link>
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		<title>Charter school teachers are highly qualified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing quite like pouncing on a hot topic right out of the gate.
Besides, what better way for you to get to know me and how my charter school favoring mind thinks, than to throw you straight into the whirl-wind of charter school debates.
You see yesterday I posted a little column on my Examiner page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://charterschoolmom.com/blog/2009/03/24/hello-world/</link>
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