This is not the time to abandon our public schools - by undermining and helping to destroy them with private charter schools. (nystateofpolitics.com)
The ASD superintendent would be able to fire all teachers and staff and enter into five year contracts with private charter school management companies to handle the schools» operations, all in a bid to catapult low performing schools from the bottom five percent up into the top echelon of the state's high performing schools. (ncpolicywatch.com)
Henry specifically cited the achievement school district (ASD) model that Tennessee is using, which allows private charter school operators to take over public schools, fire the teachers and principals, and use their own school management approaches to try to bring students» academic proficiency rates up into the top quartile of the state's public schools. (ncpolicywatch.com)