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Note: At right is a list of the 9 entries in the "Charter Schools" archive (most recent first).
Below, the entries are listed again in expanded form, with a short excerpt or summary from each entry.Charter Schools Archives
Connecticut Charter Schools Not Supported by Governor January 05, 2006
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reports that Governor Jodi Rell of Connecticut isn't very supportive of that state's charter schools, which are currently at their quota limit, and cannot grow without legislative help. Connecticut has a weak charter school law, which means that it is all the more difficult for charter proponents and operators to open new schools and run them...
Charter Elementary Success in Watts: Recipe for Acheivement December 30, 2005
Via Joanne Jacobs, we learn of a success story in Los Angeles. The Watts Learning Center (WLC), a K-5 charter school serving "nearly all African American and low income" students, has dramatically raised the achievement of its students. For the Pacific Research Institute, Lance T. Izumi writes: In the Pacific Research Institute’s recent book, Free to Learn: Lessons from Model...
Congratulations class of 2004 June 24, 2004
Last night we attended the commencement exercises of our charter school. (At right is one of our students--who got an A in math and is headed for a career in the U.S. Air Force--coming down the aisle.) While we were dismayed at the lack of decorum by those in attendance--only a handful of men were even wearing a necktie (and... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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Free Market Triptych (part one): Parental Choice March 31, 2004
We are convinced that if K-12 education were to become more like the rest of the world--that is, if it were to join the free market--many of the problems we now face with failing schools (and the wild pendulum swings of governmental mandates in response to failing schools) would disappear in short order. While there are several different aspects of... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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Myth of "creaming" and school choice March 16, 2004
In Townhall.com's C-log this week, they report on the "creaming argument" that schools of choice (usually charter schools and recipients of voucher students) "cream" the best and the brightest from the public school population. The traditional argument is that public schools will suffer because only the best students will make the choice to switch to a school of choice, either... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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Joe Nathan on Charter Schools February 19, 2004
We like to describe Charter Schools as schools that are essentially publicly funded but privately run. (Full disclosure: We've worked for no fewer than five inner-city charter schools.) An excellent book on the subject is Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education, by Joe Nathan. He shares an interesting annecdote about a conference that was held in Boise,... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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The whole point of charter schools: Choice February 14, 2004
A battle was waged recently in California, where supporters of charter schools won a court ruling to be able to use closed public schools in which to open theirs. Which makes perfect sense to us: if a school is not being used, why not permit a charter school to utilize the space? Fortunately, the California Supreme Court upheld the ruling,... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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Unilateral Disarmament of Educational Standards January 14, 2004
Joanne Jacobs has a very interesting Boston Globe report on a Russian immigrant to the U.S. trying to start a charter school. The school design sounds to us like it is very rigorous and clear-headed, but the residents opposed to the school have a handy fallback position: Xenophobia! How quaint, it's like the Cold War all over again. Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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Thwarting Charter School Efforts January 06, 2004
From today's Center for Education Reform's Newswire, we have the story of a charter school application which was denied on some suspicious grounds. One of the more creative reasons for denying a charter application can be found in Portland, Oregon, where a team of administrators recommended to Portland’s District School Board that they deny a charter application because it called... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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