Parent takeover of bad schools? Best take it slow

Parent takeover of bad schools? Best take it slow
A parental takeover of a failing school is an idea that stirs the imagination. Sounds like a movie.But anybody who has watched the history of charter schools — and, for that matter, anybody who hasn’t — can imagine a lot going wrong.
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Magnetars – brighter than a galaxy, heavier than the Sun
Scarcely a week passes without scientists discovering new “threats to humanity.” These threats are often considerably exaggerated and gladly spread by mass media. Sergei Popov, Ph.D., senior research associate at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, in an interview with RIA Novosti’s Samir Shakhbaz tries to separate the wheat from the chaff to find out where the real danger lies and what just …
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