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maintain the system hampered the district''s effort to offer other resources. It''s not that CDLN was terrible, english but the new system allowed the district language to spread its money further. People can now put books on hold via teaching the Web english site and can search the library''s database. It also offers Electric Library that lets students research topics through sources such as newspapers, magazines and books. The students really like it, and the new features," said Bismarck High library media specialist Charlotte Hill. very user friendly." One of the new options that has made life easier for students is called language the book bag, Hill said. Students can a topic search and then drop each book title that they want into their book bag on the computer screen. Theym,can then make a teaching printout of the titles english in a bibliography format and collect their books. They weren''t language able to make a printout before," Hill said. teaching They had to The sheer number of homeschoolers english represent a distinct threat to the hegemony of the government school monopoly. Qualitatively, the academic success of homeschoolers, measured by standardized test scores and language and teaching recruitment by colleges [1], debunk the myth that parents need to hire credentialed english experts to force children to learn. language Homeschooling also refutes the “more money equals better education” mantra of teacher unions. The average homeschooling teaching family spends approximately 10% of the per pupil costs associated with government schools [2] in achieving these academic results. Multiplied by the number of homeschoolers, even these modest amounts add up to a sizeable market attracting numerous educational entrepreneurs. Besides challenging the legitimacy of government schools, homeschoolers english also pose a more direct economic threat. Funding for government schools is based on attendance, In that year, which was some 40 years after the start of a massive effort by reformers to consolidate districts into larger administrative units, there were about language 120,000 individual school districts in the U.S. This meant that on average there were only two schools per district. Now, that is really local control. Even now, after consolidation teaching has continued for another 60 years, english we still have about 15,000 separate school districts -- each with primary control over financing, staffing, and setting curriculum standards for our schoolsCertainly state governments have taken steps over the years to assert greater control over these matters in K-12 schooling, and even the federal government has made tiny and tentative moves in this direction. But all these efforts language have been undertaken teaching in the face of enormous resistance by local communities, which have vigorously fought to preserve the autonomy of their schools.
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