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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find or Understand it?

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When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. After going through the fellowship, he moved his eldest son, a 10th-grader, to a higher-performing charter school.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

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Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation. The victory was bittersweet.

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