But for many players, the exit market is better right now than at any time since 2007.

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Using venture capital lingo, Shoemaker says he hasn't yet figured out the right "exit strategy" for the charities he aids.

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Why not, for example, stipulate that future grants will only be made in states that permit student results to be linked to teacher evaluations--now barred by New York and California, among others--and that give kids the right to exit dreadful schools for better ones?

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