Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City, for example, has been making Herculean efforts to turn around its failing million-student school system.

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Mr. MIKE CASSERLY (The Council Of Great City School): Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a school system and a city whose student achievement was nationally renowned as being extremely low.

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One way to unlock innovation in our school system and help it transform into a student-centric one is to get out of our own way and eliminate these disincentives.

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Connecticut is set to revamp the way it evaluates public-school teachers with a vote Wednesday that is expected to create a rating system based on student performance, classroom observations and, to a smaller extent, anonymous student and parent surveys.

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Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona-based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student-centric system not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

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The suggestions, some of them updates from a mayoral run he nearly made in 2009, include giving every public school student a Kindle reader and using Medicaid money to create a city-run, single-payer health system for the uninsured.

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The suggestions, some of them updates from a mayoral run he nearly made in 2009, range from giving every public school student a Kindle reader to using Medicaid money to create a city-run, single-payer health system for the uninsured.

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