«This is part of what drives me crazy about
debates around charter schools and «choice» in the United States»
Not exact matches
Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and
charter education
around the role of independent
schools in the vital
debate about the future of education.
Another is that amid the trench warfare that the
school reform
debate has settled into in recent years, with the liberal - left and unions rallying
around traditional
schools, and moderates and conservatives supporting
charter schools, neither side has had an interest in promoting the story.
[1] For a long time, the
debate over
charter schools has revolved
around the simplistic question of whether they are better or worse than traditional public
schools.
That passion has fed the highly polarized
debate around how well
charter schools educate students in comparison to traditional public
schools.
The public and policy
debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly
around issues of teacher quality and
charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.
What stands out most about the
debate around unionizing
charter schools, however, is how shockingly little we know about what it even means.
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.
At the Independent
Charter School Symposium, Christopher Norwood, founder of the Florida Association of Independent
Schools — which represents freestanding
charters, not CMOs or EMOs — explained how the legislative
debates around HB 7069 highlighted problems independent
charters face in his state.
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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.
Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves
around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable
charter schools and the
debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.
The film was shown as part of an initiative of AROS, supported through the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to foster
debate about the impact of
charter schooling on the public education landscape
around the country.