By empowering teachers to experiment with their craft, charters could serve as R&D spaces for new and better practices that could then be transferred
back into traditional public schools.
Despite their accomplishments and passion, New Leaders fellows have had a hard time
breaking into traditional public schools, especially those fellows who lack contacts or extensive experience in education.
I would like to see the conversation move toward a more productive place that takes into account all the implications of introducing choice
into traditional public school systems, not just the potential benefits for some students and families.
The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to
move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.
The mayor, who campaigned on a promise to charge wealthy charters rent, blasted the Bloomberg administration's stance on co-locating charters as «abhorrent,» hours after he reversed a plan that would have allowed three of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies to
expand into traditional public schools.
Another major issue still unresolved, according to Tom Precious of The Buffalo News: whether to drive more money to charter schools, as Senate Republicans want, or
into the traditional public school systems, as Assembly Democrats insist upon.
As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best
Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.
HMK traced students who were «lotteried out»
into the traditional public schools and compared their subsequent performance to those who had entered the charter schools.
For some reason, transferring into a charter school seems to have a much more negative effect on achievement than transferring
into a traditional public school.
The district is recommending the second step toward revoking its independent charter school status and turning it back
into a traditional public school, following an investigation into financial mismanagement first reported in the Los Angeles Daily News.
Houston infused the practices of high - achieving charter schools
into its traditional public schools and saw its achievement gap in math fall 50 percent.