New Haven, CT — Connecticut's
public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.
New Haven, CT — Connecticut's
public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.
Not exact matches
The
charter school movement turned 25 last year, yet the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools identified only 3 out of 43 states — California, Colorado, Utah — and the District of Columbia as having laws that support access to capital funding and faci
charter school movement turned 25 last year, yet the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools identified only 3 out of 43 states — California, Colorado, Utah — and the District of Columbia as having laws that support access to capital funding and faci
Charter Schools identified only 3 out of 43 states — California, Colorado, Utah — and the District of Columbia as having laws that support access to capital funding and facilities.
But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated
public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic
school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban
public -
school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning
charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to
turn heads among educators in both the private and
public sectors.
From the perspective of these folks, most - notably the education historian -
turned - sophist Diane Ravitch, the Newtown massacre serves as their chance to mount their usual criticisms of the
school reform
movement and advocate against
public charter schools, as well as go beyond that.