Join YTFG’s Safe Passage Conference Calls
The Youth Transition Funders Group is hosting two conference calls this fall to share how funders and communities are working together to help all of America s youth connect by age 25. Panelists will discuss pathways to college and careers, reform and alternatives to incarceration, and programs that help youth become financially independent after foster care .

How much does it cost to deliver a unit of education -- say, a semester of Algebra I -- through a computer? How does that compare to the cost of doing the same by means of a teacher in a classroom? Is it essentially the same product? And if it is cheaper to explain to teens how to solve for X using the tools the computer age has given us, who should realize the savings?

Here's a selection of recent headlines from around the country:
"Charter schools see boom in sign-ups" (Detroit News, Dec. 19)