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December
- Beat the Odds bronze-level school partners
- P-20 adopts amended grad rate goal
November
- Schools enroll parent liaisons in Beat the Odds program
- P-20 committee briefed on Pathways to Postsecondary
- Achieve, Inc. College & Career-Ready Policy Institute
- New international benchmarking advisory group
October
- Center announces Pathways to Postsecondary Project
- Helios funds BTO Parents as Partners Program
- Polling by Gallup Organization to begin in November
- Smith Junior High success story
September
- Arizona Gallup Poll under development
- Center profiled in report on think-and-do tanks
- Interview with BTO Director Marjorie Kaplan
- Arizona collaborating, establishing core proficiencies
August
- Beat the Odds partner schools double
- Teacher ownership of student test scores
- Skilled workforce named as critical issue
- Ongoing rapid school growth projected
- Town Hall recommendation: Redesign education system
July
- Statewide citizens’ poll under discussion
- 2006 graduation rate is most reliable benchmark
- District-level Beat the Odds program announced
- Arizona per-student spending among lowest nationally
June
- Customized Gallup World Poll considered
- Spanish-language Beat the Odds executive summary
- Improved data collection yields grad rate drop
- Resolving teacher attraction and retention issues
May
- High school graduation rate drops
- Excelencia Elementary benefits from collaboration
- Teacher I.D. bill passes House
- Standardizing graduation rate formulas
April
- Successful high stakes testing
- Teacher I.D. bill
- Arizona Capitol Times profile
- Leaders for Learning project
- Dropout process begins in kindergarten
March
- Washington Elementary improves outcomes
- Parent training program at Larry C. Kennedy Elementary
February
- Dr. Kaplan named BTO Institute Director
- Beat the Odds video now online
January
- Arizona First Advised Fund donation
- U.S. teens’ math and science scores trail
- High school graduation requirements rise
- College freshmen require remedial math
- Public school finance studied