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...Staff writer Garrett M. Graff can be reached at ggraff@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Garrett M. Graff can be reached at ggraff@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Garrett M. Graff can be reached at ggraff@fas.harvard.edu...
...this brave new marketplace, education and business are harder and harder to separate. For this school year, Paramount budgeted $5,000 for advertising and $6,000 for textbooks. Even as the school was freezing funds for new supplies, Paramount principal Bud Garrett had to send his teachers door-to-door to recruit new pupils. "We scrambled big time," explains Garrett, "flyering and advertising until we got up to 140." While Garrett and his staff were out fishing for students, Cline was hard at work on another venture: a second Paramount campus in nearby Peoria, where he says there are "better...
...that visit, Jordison said the school "seemed to be doing what they need to do." During a visit by TIME, however, a group of students had locked several boys inside the girls' bathroom. The crowd of students summoned to the principal's office outnumbered those in some classrooms--evidence, Garrett says, that charter schools tend to be magnets for misfits. "I got kicked out of my public school last week for cold-cocking a girl," boasted a student...