Sentences with phrase «first charter law»

Reichgott Junge candidly shared with guests personal details of her challenging journey as an original champion of chartered schools, the tumultuous legislative passage of the nation's first charter law in Minnesota twenty years ago, and chartering's subsequent explosion onto the national stage.

Among the states, Minnesota (home of the nation's first charter law), Florida, and California allocate some financial assistance for lease payments to charter schools on a per - pupil basis, similar to the way in which operating funds are distributed.

Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

And, finally, given that Minnesota enacted the first charter law twenty years ago, why has it taken this long for scholars to start to dig into the big questions about how and why charters are (or aren't) seizing opportunities to rethink industrial era cost structures and staffing routines?

When Minnesota passed the first charter law in 1990, the innovation seemed precious, quaint, delicate, and certain to break.

In 1962 (years before the first charter law), he described how competitive market forces would strengthen educational quality, efficiency and productivity.

In 1990, one year before Minnesota passed the nation's first charter law, Ted Kolderie dubbed this approach «divestiture.»

He helped create the nation's first charter law in 1991 and helped 25 states design their own.

The history of CPE 1 is a critical part of the longer, ongoing struggle for increased autonomy in public schools, and the lessons learned in its birth back in the 1970's were carried by educational visionaries to the Itasca meeting in 1988 which led to the first charter law in Minnesota.

Minnesota passed the first charter law in 1991, and the first charter school opened in 1992.

As one of the Paul Wellstone Democrats who helped write the first charter law in Minnesota — and has worked with Democrats and Republicans all over the country, I'm glad to see this accurate reporting of history.

As we mark the silver anniversary of the first charter law, it is worth looking back at the ideas that spurred the movement, the evolution of the concept and rationales for charters, and the status of charters as an education reform today.

Minnesota passed the nation's first charter law in 1991, and the first voucher program was launched in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that same year.

With Junge's help, Minnesota would pass the nation's first charter law three years later.

Although the report says charters, specifically those serving low - income minority students in urban areas, outperform their district counterparts in many cities, the sector hasn't done enough to push the envelope in the nearly 25 years since the first charter law was passed.

«As charter leaders from across the nation gather this week in Minneapolis, MN for the National Charter Schools Conference, we commemorate the important milestone of 20 years since the signing of the first charter law in the nation.

Puerto Rico passes its first charter law in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Minnesota's legislature passed the first charter law in 1991, and the first charter school opened in 1992.