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		<title>National Charter Schools Week: CSP represents Minnesota charters in DC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of  National Charter Schools Week, May 6-12, charter representatives from dozens of states descended on Washington, DC to advocate on behalf of charter schools. While the focus was on raising awareness of the growing success of the charter &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3897">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>2012 legislative session: Charters 2.0, district-charter collaboration, K-12 omnibus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview With a final vote on the Vikings stadium bill pending, the legislative session will wrap up in the next few days.  For charter and ed-reform advocates, the shortened session was somewhat mixed and difficult to get one’s arms around &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3782">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Walton Family Foundation awards $1.22 million to Twin Cities charter schools. Refocuses support to high quality Minneapolis charters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN. 4.25.12.  The Walton Family Foundation today awarded $1.22 million to five start-up charter schools, including Eric Mahmoud’s new North Minneapolis Mastery School which will open Fall 2012, and announced that it would focus its future support for charter &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3764">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Charters 2.0 heard in key House committee, stays alive. State secures $28.2 million for charters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charter School Partners own bill, Charters 2.0, HF 2714, sponsored by Rep. Kelby Woodard (R-Belle Plaine) was heard in yesterday&#8217;s House Education Finance Committee and was &#8216;held over for possible inclusion in other bills&#8217;, which would allow any of the provisions &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3717">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An historic new day: Harvest Prep gets approval for four new schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Beating the Odds!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(March 24, 2012 update: A Minneapolis Star Tribune article on Eric Mahmoud and the success of Harvest Prep/Best Academy). Earlier this week, the Minneapolis School Board unanimously approved the the creation of four new schools for Harvest Prep&#8217;s founder and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3697">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gap Closing: Achieving Results &#8212; Twin Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, the African American Leadership Forum hosted the Gap Closed: Achieving Results! conference on the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus.  The event, which had over 200 participants made up mostly of  classroom teachers working at both district and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3651">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Teach for America: Growing up, having impact</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its launch in May 2009, Charter School Partners has been a strong partner with Teach for America-Twin Cities. CSP has encouraged  many of its Partner Schools to hire TFA Corps Members and we continue to maintain a strong, committed &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3552">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Prep: Beating the Odds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great story on KARE 11 this morning on the success of CSP&#8217;s Partner School, Minneapolis&#8217; Harvest Preparatory Academy, the state&#8217;s leading public school serving 95% low-income students. Here it is in its entirety. Harvest Preparatory beats the odds on achievement &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3532">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) secures $28 million Promise Neighborhood grant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A remarkable announcement from North Minneapolis today. The $28 million Promise Neighborhood grant is on top of last week&#8217;s announcement that Minnesota has secured a $45 million Race to the Top grant to support Minnesota&#8217;s Pre-K reform efforts, dollars that &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3507">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Partner Tuesday, TFA Event highlight CSP&#8217;s busy week</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two events highlighted a very busy week at Charter School Partners. The first was a Partner Tuesday Quality-Charter/Ed-Reform Legislative Luncheon in which House Ed-Reform Committee Chair, Rep. Sondra Erickson, joined CSP Partner Schools and a number of CSP ed-reform partners &#8230; <a href="http://blog.charterschoolpartners.org/?p=3451">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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