Peninsula School District says no to charter schoolsTheNewsTribune.comPeninsula School District says no to charter schools. School board members in the Gig Harbor-area Peninsula School District have opted out of becoming a charter school authorizer, just as their counterparts in Tacoma have done. Debbie Cafazzo; Staff ...and more » […]
Brunswick County Schools opposes approval of new charter schoolWECT-TV6BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) - Brunswick County Schools is coming out in opposition of the approval of South Brunswick Charter School. In a Local Education Agency Impact Statement, which will be sent to the NC Department of Public Instruction's ...District opposes Brunswick charter sc […]
Charter school proponent does not speak for BridgeportCt PostMs. Alexander stated that Hugh Bailey's recent column on the local charter school application "is an insult to the 65,000 Connecticut kids stuck in failing schools." As Bridgeport public school parents and elected parent leaders, we find it insulting ... […]
State bans new online charter schools for 1 yearChicago TribuneEarlier this year, nonprofit Virtual Learning Solutions proposed starting the Illinois Virtual Charter School @ Fox River Valley in the western suburbs. The online school would serve students in kindergarten through high school and would be managed by ...Quinn signs moratorium on online charter s […]
At Boston Charter Schools, Higher Standards Mean Fewer Graduate in Four YearsBusinessweekRoughly 59 percent of Boston's charter school students graduated high school within four years, 10 percent fewer than those at public schools, according to the study (pdf) by the School Effectiveness & Inequality Initiative at the Massachusetts ...MIT Study Show […]
Nashville Scene (blog)Charter School Crowd and MNPS Do Different Math on Student AttritionNashville Scene (blog)But rejigger the formula based on charter school advocates' preference, and the top eight schools for attrition instead lead with Boys Prep, Pearl-Cohn High School, Smithson Craighead, Maplewood High School, Hunters Lane High School, Gra-Mar M […]
Education advocacy group slams operators of some new charter schoolsMLive.comAmber Arellano, the group's executive director, said in the statement that while the group supports high-quality charter schools, the group is concerned by some of the operators in charge of the schools. ... A K-8 private school reopening as a charter ...and more » […]
Newsworks.orgBill Ratliff says Texas has one charter school rated "unacceptable" for seven ...PolitiFactBut education agency spokeswoman DeEtta Culbertson emailed us a spreadsheet, drawing on agency records, indicating the Gabriel Tafolla Charter School in Uvalde was rated "academically unacceptable" or the equivalent in 2000 through 2002 […]
Texas Public RadioA Possible Deal on Testing, Charter School BillsMyHighPlainsThe HB 5 negotiations progress while conferees also battle over which chamber's version of Senate Education Chairman Dan Patrick's high-priority charter school measure, Senate Bill 2, they will adopt. HB 5 could serve as a lifeboat for measures that ...Senate & House […]
Tacoma School Board to hold off on charter start-upsTheNewsTribune.comUnder the state's new charter school law, the publicly funded, privately run charter schools can be granted authority to operate either by a local school board or by a newly established statewide charter commission. Only nonprofit, nonreligious ...Tacoma school board to discuss public […]