that is reluctant to spend more from savings to prevent painful teacher cutbacks.

to begin at age three in the local school district.

They also report on students at the New York Harbor School that are growing oysters for credit.

in the local area that are going to be going after some innovation grants from the federal government.

that are footing a bigger bill for school property taxes .

The key findings:

They found that teachers after having two years of comprehensive induction saw solid gains in reading math scores.

They found that teachers under comprehensive induction had no impact on weather a teacher stays on and teaches.

The key findings are:

Charter schools did not have that much of an impact on student performance. Having a lottery to pick students did not help grades at all.

Charter schools with low income students saw gains when it came to math. Charter schools with Higher income students actually saw worse performance when it came to math.