Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Charter schools

  • Advocates, lobbyists and celebrities including Bill Cosby are rubbing shoulders in Minneapolis this week to celebrate 20 years of the charter school movement.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Charter schools in most states continue to enroll proportionately fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools, a new government report shows. Across the country, disabled students represented 8.
  • (New York Times)
  • Pennsylvania's Senate passed a measure to let the state take over fiscally distressed school districts and make charter conversions easier, a provision that spurred opposition from teachers.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • In the news this Tuesday morning: Charter schools are under increasing pressure to admit and provide more services for children with special needs.
  • (New York Times)
  • Biology teacher Mark Friedman has been suspended, and history teacher Sonia Del Pino has been dismissed from Animo Leadership Charter High School in Inglewood, which is operated by Green Dot Public Schools.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • What do we do about the fact that some New York charter schools don't enroll (or retain) their "fair share" of at-risk kids? It's a fair question — but not the "charter killer" that opponents of these innovative schools seem to think.
  • (New York Post)
  • an idea that runs contrary to standard practice for brick-and-mortar charter schools and is opposed by many online vendors. Although Stanislawski argues that multiple vendors could operate through the single online school, those in the business disagree.
  • (Daily Oklahoman)
  • So, Washington state voters could get another shot at charter schools. Following some wrestling over ballot language, Initiative 1240 is now clear to begin collecting 241,000+ signatures to get the measure on the November ballot.
  • (KOMO News)

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