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Options for Youth grads see new opportunities
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Options grad beats cancer while finishing school
June 6, 2012 | VV Daily Press
Students, vendors focus on Options for Youth Career Fair
April 3, 2012 | VV Daily Press
Students fill in for Cupid at senior center
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Options For Youth students donate blood on Friday the 13th
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Food drive garners 1,168 items for rescue mission
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Achievement Trap:
How America is Failing Millions of Highly Achieving Students from Lower Income Families
A Report by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation & Civic Enterprises with original research by Westat
Alternative Education Options:
A Descriptive Study of California Continuation High Schools
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Greg Austin, Don Dixon, Joseph Johnson, Milbrey McLaughlin & Lynne Perez
This issue brief summarizes initial findings from a yearlong descriptive study of continuation high schools in California. It is the first in a series of reports from the ongoing
California Alternative Education Research Project conducted jointly by the John W. Gardner Center at Stanford University, the National Center for Urban School Transformation at San
Diego State University, and WestEd.
What is the cost of a preschool program?
Henry M. Levin Heather L. Schwartz
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
For presentation at AEFA 2007 Annual Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
Ed Source: Annual Report, June 2008
California's Charter Schools
2008 Performance Update
This report was written and researched by:
Brian Edwards, Senior Policy Analyst, EdSource (project lead)
Eric Crane, Senior Research Associate,WestEd (analysis lead)
Heather Barondess, Research and Policy Associate, EdSource
Mary Perry, Deputy Director, EdSource
Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in California
March 24, 2005
The Civil Rights Project
Harvard University
Achievement and Behavior in Charter Schools:
Drawing a More Complete Picture
Scott A. Imberman1
University of Houston
September 28, 2007
Identifying and Replicating the "DNA"
of Successful Charter Schools:
Lessons from the Private Sector
by Robin J. Lake
The LEADERSHIP LIMBO
Teacher Labor Agreements in
America's Fifty Largest School Districts
Frederick M. Hess and Coby Loup
The Costs and Benefits of
an Excellent Education for All of America's Children
Henry Levin Teachers College, Columbia University
Clive Belfield City University of New York
Peter Muennig Columbia University
Cecilia Rouse Princeton University
January 2007
LOCATING THE DROPOUT CRISIS
Which High Schools Produce the Nation's Dropouts?
Where Are They Located?
Who Attends Them?
Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters
Johns Hopkins University
Report 70
September 2004
The Growth of Charter School Management Organizations
National Charter School Research Project
University of Washington
Evaluating the Performance of Philadelphia's Charter Schools
Ron Zimmer, Rand
Suzanne Blanc, Research for Action
Brian GIll, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Jolley Christman, Research for Action
Building a Positive Future for Black Boys
Rosa A. Smith
Given Half a Chance:
The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males
Schott Foundation for Public Education
Straight A's: Gap in Graduation Rates - 7/29/08
Alliance for Excellent Education
The State of Black California
A Report from The California Legislative Black Caucus
The Proficiency Illusion
John Cronin, Michael Dahlin,
Deborah Adkins, and G. Gage Kingsbury
With a foreword by Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Michael J. Petrilli
October 2007
