"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Urban Renewal: New Alliance Research Shows U.S. Urban Economy Will Grow By Billions of Dollars If High School Dropout Rate is Reduced in America's Fifty Largest Cities; (2) When Cars Fly?: Report Projects State Revenues to Recover in 2014 or 2015, Recessionary Effects on State Budgets to Last Until Late in Next Decade; (3) Graduation for All: House Education Committee Chairman Introduces Legislation Targeting Nation's Lowest-Performing High Schools; (4) House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Improving Reading and Comprehension Skills of Children and Young Adults; and (5) "Success at Every Step": New Report Profiles Twenty-Three Programs that Help Prepare Students for College and Career. (Contains 1 footnote.)