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Friday, 03 September 2010
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IDRA News Releases and Advisories
Click the links below to read IDRA’s news releases and media advisories. Recieve IDRA news releases by e-mail or RSS feed.
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7/12/2010 |
A Quality Schools Action Framework™ – New IDRA Book Frames School Change for Student Success |
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7/07/2010 |
Rio Grande Valley Communities Mobilize to Improve Valley Schools – Community Leaders will Dialogue with White House Officials |
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3/22/2010 |
Six Students Win National Essay Contest Award |
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12/02/09 |
Without Fair Funding, Most Texas Schools Struggle to Succeed –
State Has Backed Away from Fair Funding of Schools |
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10/27/09 |
Texas School Attrition Rates Declines, But Gaps Among Racial/Ethnic Groups Persist – Texas Publice School Attrition Study, 2008-09 |
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5/21/09 |
State of English Language Learner Education is Dismal – Huge achievement gaps at the middle and high school level in particular show need for changes in policy, teacher training and evaluation |
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5/21/09 |
Referrals to Texas Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs Double in 10 Years – Four out of five students referred to Texas DAEPs are not there because of serious offenses |
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3/18/09 |
Top 10 Myths of the Top Ten Percent Plan |
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2/25/09 |
Texas Students Win National Essay Contest Award |
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10/21/08 |
At Current Pace, Schools Will Lose Many More Generations of Students |
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10/10/08 |
Community-based College Access and Computer Centers |
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10/10/08 |
College Rocks! Fair |
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7/31/08 |
All Texas Students Must be Accounted For |
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05/22/08 |
Eight Texas Regional Attrition Rates Worse than Two Decades Ago |
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02/28/08 |
New Podcast for Educators |
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10/30/07 |
Texas School Holding Power Worse than Two Decades Ago – Texas Public School Attrition Study, 2006-07 |
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10/30/07 |
New Online Tool Gives Actionable Data for School-Community Teams to Improve Texas Schools – IDRA Launches Web Portal to Support Efforts to Strengthen School Holding Power |
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05/02/07 |
Media Advisory – Policy Brief on Released on Ten Percent Plan in Texas |
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01/19/07 |
Media Advisory – Issue Briefing: A Legislative Briefing on the Texas Dropout Crisis |
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01/09/07 |
Coalition-Building for Education: Blueprints for Action, Little Rock, Arkansas (January 19, 2007) |
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10/04/06 |
Race-Ethnicity Gap Among Dropouts Continues to Grow – Texas Public School Attrition Study, 2005-06 (Electronic release version) (Traditional release html, doc, pdf) |
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12/08/05 |
Successful Dropout Prevention Program Comes to Detroit – Community Leaders Breakfast and Tutoring Demonstration Held |
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12/07/05 |
Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program Addresses Dropout Prevention in Detroit Public Schools at Community Event |
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11/4/05 |
Communities & Schools Must Work Together to Graduate All Students – Latest Texas Attrition Data Released; Nov 4-5 Summit to Support Community-Based Leadership for Student Success – San Antonio |
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11/02/05 |
Advisory: Texas Schools are Losing a Student Every Four Minutes – IDRA Releases Attrition Data and Holds Summit for Solutions |
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11/02/05 |
Advisory: Summit on School Holding Power and Dropout Prevention |
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7/22/05 |
School Reform Isn’t Acceptable if It Isn’t Equitable – Statement on the Closing of the First 2005 Texas Legislative Special Session |
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6/21/05 |
Equity and Excellence for All Texas Students – Statement regarding school funding special session |
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2/2/05 |
Leaders Unveil Plans for Education of Latinos |
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1/31/05 |
Advisory: Leaders Will Release Policy Solutions for Education of Latinos | |
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