Sentences with phrase «original idea of charter schools»

I still think the original idea of charter schools has a lot of merit.

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This structural flaw runs counter to the original idea of chartering, allowing an entity other than the local school district to establish new schools.

The original vision of charter schools in 1988, when the idea was popularized, was that they would be created by venturesome public school teachers who would seek out the most alienated students, those who had dropped out or those who were likely to do so.

The original idea of chartering public schools was to provide new options for all kinds of students, families and educators.

«The original idea for EL was taking the ideas of a good progressive education, the best of it, and combining it into something that could be implemented and serve low - income kids,» said Meg Campbell, co-founder of Boston's Codman Academy Charter Public School, a member of the EL Education network.

Green doesn't consider himself «anti-charter» and in fact supports charter schools as incubators of educational innovation — the original idea behind the movement first articulated in the late 1980s by Albert Shanker.