Not exact matches
A few reports
of obstructionist behavior by districts stand
out and have been chronicled in these
pages by Joe Williams («Games
Charter Opponents Play,» features, Winter 2007) and Nelson Smith («Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»
This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point
out on the first
page of the executive summary and then again on
page 57
of the full report: «the concentration
of charter schools in urban areas skews the
charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages
of poor and minority students.»
On these
pages we present the basics on starting new
charter schools in California, map
out the four major phases
of the school development process, and include detailed descriptions
of the buckets
of work successful teams will complete within each phase.
The Chicago Tribune's front
page carried the above headline (left) on a story that described the discipline policy
of the Noble Network
of Charter Schools as «extreme,» «stricter than zero tolerance,» and «
out of proportion,» and shared an example
of a Noble student who was given a demerit for saying «Bless you» when a fellow student sneezed.
Yet a front -
page story in the New York Times last week dealt with how Success Academy, a high - performing
charter school network in New York City's low - income and minority neighborhoods, has been accused
of «weeding
out weak or difficult students.»