Much of the expansion of school choice in other countries has
centered around charter - style schools, which are called by various names in other countries.
With the Los Angeles Board of Education poised to consider the expansion of another successful charter school at its March 8 meeting, parents demanding more choice deserve to know what is driving the district's questionable
practices around charter review.
Earlier today, someone snapped a screenshot of a Facebook post by Boston Mayoral candidate Tito Jackson: When applied to the
battle around charter schools in Massachusetts, as my friend said, you could have lifted that line right out of the movie «Waiting for Superman.»
By Caroline Bermudez With the Los Angeles Board of Education poised to consider the expansion of another successful charter school at its March 8 meeting, parents demanding more choice deserve to know what is driving the district's questionable practices
around charter review.
Also in Ohio: After the public outcry
around its charter expansion grant to Ohio, the Department of Education announced this week that it is placing a hold and restrictions on the grant funding.
HB 5105 / Turn -
around Charter by Rep. Diaz has passed out of the Education Committee with a 3/5 vote and was referred to the House Appropriations Committee.
The dangers of such an approach, in an era where administrative law decisions makers have increasing power, is to allow legislators to do an end
run around Charter protections by delegating discretionary authority to administrative rule makers, rather than imposing clear rules, subject to robust Charter challenge.
Cuomo highlighted three major sticking points: raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, the 421 - a property tax abatement program, and education funding,
especially around charter schools.
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Watching a lifetime DFL» er respond to such obstructionism offers an interesting perspective on the cleavages in the generally center - left, Democratic Leadership Council - driven coalition that built
support around charter schools.
Similarly, how does taxpayer support of home - schoolers, who form a
confederacy around the charter banner but rarely see one another, advance civic cohesion in suburban towns and rural areas?
Given Nina's new role, and the current
tumult around charter schooling, I thought it timely to sit down and chat with her about the gig.
I also hypothesize that networks would help spawn a private - schools - support ecosystem in the nonprofit sector, akin to the ecosystem that has been
developed around charters.
We question why this big of an increase this year, when we are cash - strapped and moving on to an even bigger deficit next year, and what is the criteria CPS is using to make
decisions around charter expansion?
And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy
agendas around charters.
Senators asking her questions may want to ask her about charter oversight and the
dynamic around charters in Pennsylvania and the Bethlehem Area School District, as described by Burris.
Rep. Mayo, noting discussions in recent months with other members of the Georgia General
Assembly around charter school financial crises in Atlanta Public Schools and Bibb County Schools, wants to establish a minimum amount of required financial training for charter school finance directors.
State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the Senate education chairwoman who shepherded the new tenure law, has said she will have legislation ready in the coming months, but given the
vitriol around charter schools the last four years, the debate is unlikely to be quick and easy.
Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, said the Trump administration's rhetoric has only deepened partisan
tensions around charter schools.
«There is a just a lot of
buzz around charters here - it's as if charters are the only option for change,» Cohn said.
I'm hopeful, though not optimistic, that Gov. Larry Hogan will clean up the bureaucratic and political
morass around charter schools so that ordinary, middle - class families can enjoy more educational choices to Maryland.
Four experts faced off in a live debate Wednesday night on a range of issues that
swirl around charter schools — whether for - profit schools work, what's best for student achievement, and if charters lead to innovation.
Certainly I hope that one of the take - aways from the work in LA, and obviously we'll be judged by our outcomes and whether we're successful, is in changing this conversation about what is a zero - sum
gain around the charter sector and the traditional school sector.
These tools are designed to assist charter school authorizers to improve practices
around charter approval, oversight, renewal, and closure.
«The amount of testing was at the top, followed closely by
concerns around charter schools,» Colleen Grady, the former Strongsville school board member who is now a senior policy advisor for the Ohio Department of Education, told the board then.
In Oakland County, of the more than 9,600 students in charter schools, 3,458 are from Detroit, which means comparing their test scores to scores of those in the
neighborhoods around the charter schools does not give correct information, Bauer said.
Lost in the heat of
battle around charter schools is the fact that Los Angeles Unified already offers parents a mix of school choices that the full board could coalesce around and expand as needed.
She worked on a number of policies
revolving around charter schools, the introduction of school uniforms, and the standards movement, says Josh Greenman, director of strategy and communications — and McCown's colleague — at the Teaching Commission in New York.
In addition to the evidence behind investing in early childhood education as a way of reaping long - term benefits, the two leaders covered the
debate around charter schools; the role of the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, in promoting opportunity and achievement for all students, especially the most vulnerable; and the value and importance of giving students second chances.
When applied to the battle
around charter schools in Massachusetts, as my friend said, you could have lifted that line right out of the movie «Waiting for Superman.»
They operate campuses primarily in South Los Angeles, and have both start - up charters that grew independently and turn -
around charters that they took over from the school district.
Charter school families and supporters consistently turn out to vote at higher levels than the general electorate, making it especially important that we mobilize
them around charter school policy issues.