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A new study suggests that traditional public schools improve when they face competition from charter schools.

CARSON CITY – As Nevada policy makers work to ensure that ineffective teachers are removed from classrooms around the state, a new report released today provides evidence to support the use of test scores to measure how much individual teachers contribute to pupil achievement.

There have been skirmishes about whether or not the improved Mississippi reading scores are real and what they mean. They indicate genuine, although modest, progress in the literacy skills of young Mississippi schoolchildren.

For many third graders in Mississippi, the only thing standing between them and fourth grade is passing the state’s reading test. The Mississippi Children’s Museum is one of the organizations volunteering to help students clear that last hurdle.

MADEIRA BEACH — William Gay wants a pool, restaurant, and other improvements to the Cambria Hotel’s fifth-floor roof deck removed and the owners of the Madeira Beach Town Center project