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• Urban schools use marketing to woo residents back (AP)
• Robert Bobb hits streets to coax students back (AP)
• Enrollment decreasing in Detroit Public Schools (AP)
• NYC school makes harbor its classroom (AP)
• Teachers' union criticizes Obama on schools stance (AP)

Urban schools use marketing to woo residents back (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 01:24 PM PDT AP - Most students try not to think about school during the summer. But a number of them took to the streets on a sweltering August day to talk up public education to people who might normally enroll their children in private or parochial schools.

Robert Bobb hits streets to coax students back (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 11:45 AM PDT AP - Felicia Harvey has two reasons for sending her children to the Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences: They are learning at the charter school and she doesn't trust their education — or safety — to the city's historically poor public schools.

Enrollment decreasing in Detroit Public Schools (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 11:12 AM PDT AP - Here's a look at the enrollment decline in the Detroit Public Schools:

NYC school makes harbor its classroom (AP) Posted: 22 Aug 2009 10:50 AM PDT AP - It was an optimistic gesture by a leading state in the fledgling country. In 1790, Governors Island, a half-mile off the tip of Manhattan, was set aside for the benefit of education.

Teachers' union criticizes Obama on schools stance (AP) Posted: 21 Aug 2009 06:57 PM PDT AP - The National Education Association pointedly criticized the Obama administration, saying the president is relying too heavily on charter schools and standardized tests in his attempt to overhaul the nation's schools.

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