I wanted to highlight three good blog
posts about charter schools that came out this weekend from those for and against charter schools.
In honor of back - to - school time, Mile High Mamas ran a three - part series featuring some non-traditional schooling methods including homeschooling, unschooling and
a post about charter schools.
Not exact matches
Randi Weingarten likes to brag a little
about the reading and math test scores
posted this year at two New York City
charter schools she...
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Citizen Ed has reported on some of the hearings and has
posted some videos of the presentations, noting that parents, students, and teachers have been mostly absent, and that the NAACP's special task force, which is supposed to be weighing the evidence, seems misinformed and / or confused
about what
charter schools are.
One of them, Sally Bachofer, possessor of the rare combination of serious government experience and creative policy ideas, recently penned a good
post about ways
chartering can help solve some of our thorniest urban K — 12 problems.
There's an ongoing discussion
about how to best monitor the quality of pre-k programs, particularly those operated by
charter schools, which I'll get into in a later
post.
In my last
post, I talked
about the first two steps that district leaders need to take to survive and thrive in an era of rapid
charter growth: 1.
New York City
Charter School Center CEO James Merriman wrote a great piece for the New York Post about the success of New York City charter s
Charter School Center CEO James Merriman wrote a great piece for the New York
Post about the success of New York City
charter s
charter schools.
Paul ThomasFurman University in South Carolina professor Paul Thomas
posted a nice summary of what we know
about the track record of
charter schools, and Valarie Strauss re-
posted it for the Washington
Post here.
Jay Mathews, education columnist for The Washington
Post, discusses radio advertisements hitting Los Angeles and the Bay Area that spreads falsehoods
about California
charter schools.
«More authorizers around the country are asking their
charter networks and schools: what is it
about your school that prevents you from
posting results like Success's?»
In the last
post, I shared the Florida Auditor General's concerns
about some
charter schools.
Here's a cautionary
post about the impact of
charter schools in one school district in Pennsylvania, one of a number of states with extremely lax
charter school laws.
It was when Clinton spoke
about charter schools to the NEA that boos could be heard, according to this story by my Washington
Post colleague Emma Brown:
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posted by Achievement First — March 28 Director of School Operations, Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, CT Director of School Operations Team: Operations Location: Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, CT
About Achievement First: Achievement First is a non-profit
charter school management organization which is creating a network of achievement - gap closing public schools in...
>> Job
posted by Achievement First — March 28 Office Coordinator, Bridgeport, CT; Hartford, CT; and New Haven, CT Office Coordinator, Team: Operations Location: Bridgeport, CT; Hartford, CT; and New Haven, CT
About Achievement First: Achievement First is a
charter school management organization started in July 2003 by the leaders of Amistad Academy, a high performing
charter school...
My initial
post about the observation that Connecticut
charter schools were «creaming» off select students was in January 2011.
In the last of these
posts, Martha writes
about having to donate her time and extra work to keep up with
charter operators that can pay their staff for a full - time effort to take over the school.
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posted by Achievement First — March 30, 2012 Achievement First School Leadership Coach, Residency Program for School Leadership Start Date: July 1, 2012 Team: Team Partnership Location: New Haven, Bridgeport, and Hartford, CT
About Achievement First: Achievement First is a non-profit
charter school man...
In today's Washington
Post, Jeff Bryant, director of the Education Opportunity Network, writes
about the promises that were first offered by advocates of the
charter school industry:
When former President Bill Clinton recently meandered onto the topic of
charter schools, he mentioned something
about an «original bargain» that
charters were, according to the reporter for The Huffington
Post, «supposed to do a better job of educating students.»
About 11 percent of the district's 193,000 students attend
charter schools Palm Beach
Post.
Topping the newsfeed yesterday was an indignant
post about the approval of five new
charter school applications.
Strauss is a reporter with the Washington
Post and her bog is one of the most important resources in the nation for information
about education policy and the unprecedented assault on public schools and public school teachers by the
Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry.
One Capitol Hill mother who passed up a well - regarded
charter school for her daughter in favor of Eliot - Hine told the
Post that her concerns
about safety were unfounded and that she and her daughter are happy with the school.
The CT
Post newspapers notes that «for districts like Bridgeport, which sends
about 1,400 students to
charter school, the cost would be $ 1.4 million annually.»
In today's Connecticut
Post story
about the Appropriations Committee plan to remove the funding for the new
charter schools, the CEO of the Charter School advocacy group ConnCAN had already issued a statement attacking the legislature
charter schools, the CEO of the
Charter School advocacy group ConnCAN had already issued a statement attacking the legislature
Charter School advocacy group ConnCAN had already issued a statement attacking the legislature saying,
«DC has created so many escape hatches — you don't have to invest,» one mother told the Washington
Post as she was
about to switch her four - year - old from her neighborhood elementary school in Logan Circle to a sought - after bilingual
charter.
After last night's
post, there was a discussion on Facebook
about whether or not
charter schools pick and choose their students.
readers may recall the series of
posts about Comer, Malloy and his inappropriate decision to put the
charter school executive on the State Board of Education.
I noted that «the reasons why more Black families are enthusiastic
about charter school culture is beyond the scope of my blog
post.»
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The following
post is a companion to the story above
about Katie Osgood's January 2014 testimony to the Chicago Board of Education, in which she stated that «far too many (Noble
charter school students) are ending up in a psych ward.»
EdChoice carries my
post using the new NAEP results to bring us back to our earlier discussion of Ian Kingsbury's finding
about what our condescending friends at NACSA do to minority
charter operators:
The League
posts a variety of research papers and other publications on its website
about issues affecting
charter schools.
This is the first in a series of
posts about some of the applicants for these publicly funded
charter schools.
Did anything in that
post say anything
about charter schools?
This weekend the Tennessean
posted an article
about how two
charter schools acquired bonds from the Nashville government to help fund the cost of renovating or building new schools.
In my experience, this is a pretty common pattern: A person who works for a well - funded, anti-public education organization, whose full - time job it is to seek out social media articles and blog
posts on specific topics (i.e.,
charter schools, teacher tenure, teacher evaluation systems) and then respond with forceful and negative responses, engages in a back - and - forth
about a particular topic or issue.
«I think it's a huge blow to the [Democrats for Education] brand,» says Green Dot Public
Charter Schools founder Steve Barr in this new Huffington
Post story
about the controversial endorsement of Prop. 32 by Gloria Romero, former state legislator and current head of Democrats For Education Reform California.
Dave Cesmystruk, a
chartered account with MNP, wrote
about the complexity of transitioning the family farm in a recent blog
post.
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I have written before on this blog
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Charter of Rights so long as the police take notes for
post facto review.
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