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Hosted by MSA CEO Ramin Taheri, featuring real conversations from the field about magnet schools and public education.
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I’d spent a week preparing for a biology quiz, with hours rearranging formulas and re-reading lines out of a textbook. When I opened the packet the next day, I was shocked by one of the questions. Among its many questions about eukaryotic cells and chemical equations, a single word appeared after a multiple-choice question: Why?
As the nonprofit association that represents the nation’s thousands of magnet schools, Magnet Schools of America is deeply disappointed by the proposal to eliminate funding for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP). Eliminating MSAP would not only dismantle one of the most effective tools for expanding public school choice, it would also reverse decades of bipartisan progress in public education.
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