Extractions: No Child Left Behind and the Charter School Movement Of course we cover many other areas of privatization as well. From education to electricity, or from wastewater to waste disposal, we keep you up to date on the latest privatization news in the U.S. and around the world. Articles include: New York Can Cut Bus Costs Truck Tollways Moving Forward Atlanta Sheds Water Deal Urban Toll Tunnels Solve Tough Problems ... Privatization Briefs
Extractions: In Kansas, school board members were labeled right-wing radicals in 1999 when they voted to NOT include questions on macro-evolution in state tests. Teachers were not forbidden to teach macro-evolution, but it wouldnt be included in a standards-based test. Evolutionists viewed the decision as a challenge to the very fundamentals of science education. Adrian Melott, a University of Kansas physics professor told the board, I see this as an attack on science in general, not just biology. CEJ and the Kansas School Board members appear to have little in common on the surface. But their respective battles over testing and standards are merely the tip of the iceberg, illustrating just a few of the problems stemming from school reform efforts centered around development of national standards and high-stakes testing. Problems for private and homeschools promise to be even worse Charter Schools Articles Charter Schools pose significant problems for Christian homeschoolers. The following papers address these issues from the context of California state law. However, the principles remain the same in other states.
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THE LEAs) have until January 2006 to meet these standards for paraprofessionals Californiacharter school advocates are hoping to retain the additional wiggle room http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/46/70/4670.htm
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WE DID IT!!!! Washington Charter Public Schools more information, go to the california charter schools Association web to bring theCHOICE of charter public schools and passed for high school graduation to http://www.wacharterschools.org/legis_up_3_11_04.htm
Extractions: LAW WILL TAKE EFFECT ON JUNE 10, 2004 Dear Friends, The Washington Legislature yesterday did what no previous Washington Legislature had been able to do before: pass identical charter school bills in both the House and the Senate during the Legislative Session. Charter bills had passed the House in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, but in the Senate, none of the bills ever reached the Senate floor. Charter bills passed the Senate in 2003 in both the regular and special sessions, but neither bill ever reached the House floor. Yesterday, March 10, 2004 was a very special day in the long struggle to bring the CHOICE of charter public schools to the children, families and educators of Washington state. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2295 (E2SHB 2295) passed the state House of Representatives in the early afternoon on a vote of 51-46. About five hours later, the state Senate passed the identical bill on a vote of 27-22. http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo/dspBillSummary.cfm?billnumber=2295
RAND | Newsroom | News Releases california was the second state to authorize charter schools, enacting legislation withthe flexibility to operate outside normal school district control. http://www.rand.org/hot/press.03/06.30.html
Extractions: Optimum graphic presentation of this site requires a modern standards-friendly browser. The browser you are using may not display exactly as we intended, but you will still be able to access all of our content. For more information, see About This Site . Why upgrade? Click here to see how this site's homepage displays with a modern browser. Advanced Search Publication Search RAND Newsroom ... oec@rand.org Director Deputy Director Washington External June 30, 2003 RAND STUDY FINDS CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS PRODUCE ACHIEVEMENT GAINS SIMILAR TO CONVENTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS Charter schools in California are generally doing as well as conventional public schools in promoting reading and math student achievement, even though many charter schools struggle to acquire facilities, employ less-credentialed and less-experienced teachers, and receive less public revenue, according to a
Extractions: (Data from the The State of Charter Schools - 2000 , U.S. Dept. of Education.) In most states the education codes that govern the operation of public schools run to thousands of pages. The education codes impact almost every area of school operation. Charter schools, in contrast, have been freed from many of these regulations. Instead, they operate under charters that have been granted by public supervisory bodies. Charter schools are granted a high degree of autonomy in how they operate, but in return they are expected to be more accountable for their educational outcomes than ordinary public schools. Here in California charters must be renewed every five years, and are subject to revocation if educational objectives are not met. Charter schools usually are formed by coalitions of parents and teachers who have a particular vision of what education should be for the children in their care. Some charter schools, however, have been developed for special purposes by community groups, government agencies, or institutions of higher education. For example, some small charter schools have been formed under the auspices of probation departments to work with juvenile offenders in settings that allow for greater discipline than would be possible in a typical public school.
More On Charter Schools (Full Text) students, or do not meet student accountability standards, their charters Californiacharter school advocates attempted to lift the original statutory cap of http://www.wested.org/policy/pubs/full_text/pb_ft_more.htm
Extractions: State Charter School Contacts Introduction: The charter school movement is one of the fastest growing education reforms of the Nineties. In 1992, only two states, California and Minnesota, had passed charter school legislation. By the end of 1995, 19 states had charter school laws in place and at least 16 others had considered similar legislation. At the federal level, Congress passed legislation in 1994 authorizing grants to support states' charter school efforts. Despite such popular interest, fewer than 250 charter schools are currently operating nationwide. Whether this small but growing number of schools will lead to greater innovation and influence the systemwide transformation of public education remains to be seen. Below is a summary of the issues surrounding charter schools and the implications of recent research about the future of this movement. What constitutes a charter school?
NDOL: Charter School Lessons By Nelson Smith As in many things, california serves as a charter school bellwether. . charterschools in california also face substantial funding inequities. http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=110&subid=134&contentid=251919
News&features - January 18, 2001 president of one2ones california affiliate no longer serve as the charter schoolManagement Company feel that compromising our standards supports successful http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-01-18/cover.asp
Extractions: Horizon, a public charter school, would support her in teaching her son at home, and not only would it be free, Horizon would provide her with everything she neededtextbooks, tutoring, a computer, Internet access, even paper and pencils. She could select from a bounty of teaching aids and services, and no one would tell her what to teach or how to teach it. She could even provide the kind of moral and religious instruction that would be considered unconstitutional in a regular school. Although auditing standards have been tightened, exactly what happens to these funds is hard to track, because charter schools have not been held to public-records laws. And no official statewide effort is in place to provide quality control or regular oversight. Photo By Noel Neuburger
Extractions: In her zeal to push for charter schools ['Charter schools lead to excellence, innovation'; December 9], Lisa Coldwell O'Brien neglected the latest research which shows students in California charter schools don't outperform students in public schools and failed to mention how her company would profit. In fact, a major weakness in the Senate bill is that it would allow private companies like Advantage Schools, Inc. to rake in taxpayers' money while operating schools that aren't accountable to the public. These types of profit-making schools don't elect school boards, hold budget votes, or report students' progress. The public would have no say over how its money is spent. Another flaw is that local tax dollars would go with students to their charter schools even if they're two counties away. Some lawmakers also want to allow the hiring of uncertified teachers a lowering of standards that is deeply troubling because it comes just six months after the state raised standards for public school teachers. Contrary to some reports, New York State United Teachers is open to the idea of charter schools. We're working with legislative leaders to develop charter schools that are laboratories for innovation and reform. But we believe that with this added freedom should come accountability.
California S Charter School Law (o) The role and impact of collective bargaining on charter schools. An elementaryschool that has been operated by the University of california at the Los http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/globaled/hentschke/documents/California's Char
Extractions: January 1, 2000 This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the "Charter Schools Act of 1992." It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this part, to provide opportunities for teachers, parents, pupils, and community members to establish and maintain schools that operate independently from the existing school district structure, as a method to accomplish all of the following: (a) Improve pupil learning. (b) Increase learning opportunities for all pupils, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for pupils who are identified as academically low achieving. (c) Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods. (d) Create new professional opportunities for teachers, including the opportunity to be responsible for the learning program at the schoolsite. (e) Provide parents and pupils with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system. (f) Hold the schools established under this part accountable for meeting measurable pupil outcomes, and provide the schools with a method to change from rule-based to performance-based accountability systems.
ERIC Digest 118 - Charter Schools individual attention from teachers, curriculum, discipline, parent involvement,and academic standards. charter schools in california, Colorado, and http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest118.html
Extractions: Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management Previous (Digest 117) PDF Version Next (Digest 119) By Margaret Hadderman In seven short years, the U.S. charter-school movement has produced about 800 schools in 29 states and the District of Columbia, enrolling over 100,000 students. Charter schools reflect their founders' varied philosophies, programs, and organizational structures, serve diverse student populations, and are committed to improving public education. Charter schools are freed of many restrictive rules and regulations. In return, these schools are expected to achieve educational outcomes within a certain period (usually three to five years) or have their charters revoked by sponsors (a local school board, state education agency, or university). What Explains Charter Schools' Growing Popularity? Some members of the public are dissatisfied with educational quality and school district bureaucracies (Jenkins and Dow 1996). Today's charter-school initiatives are rooted in the educational reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, from state mandates to improve instruction, to school-based management, school restructuring, and private/public-choice initiatives. Many people, President Clinton among them, see charter schools, with their emphasis on autonomy and accountability, as a workable political compromise and an alternative to vouchers. The charter approach uses market principles while insisting that schools be nonsectarian and democratic. For founders, starting a brand-new school is an exhausting, yet exhilarating experience that "stirs the creative and adaptive juices of everyone involved" (Ray Budde 1996).
Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition In the U.S. For other uses see United States (disambiguation) The United States of America U.S.A. ), also referred to as the United States U.S. America the States , is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean (the islands of Hawaii, and the Aleutians). It extends from the Atlantic coast in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in the north and Mexico in the south, shares a marine border with Russia in the west, and has a collection of districts, territories, and possessions around the world including Puerto Rico, Midway Atoll, and Guam. The country has fifty states, which have a level of local autonomy. A United States citizen is usually identified as an Click the link for more information. , a charter school is a school This article is about educational institutions. For other uses of the term school , see School (disambiguation). A school is a type of educational institution. The range of institutions covered by the term varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom, the term
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ReformK12.com: The Whole Point Of Charter Schools: Choice Teachers Union and the california school Board Association. not want charter schoolsbecause charter schools are usually are several levels to school reform in http://www.reformk12.com/archives/000103.nclk
Extractions: 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, after an appeal by opponents of charter schools. In a Washington Times column this week, Deborah Simmons writes: That parents are still fighting the usual suspects more than a decade after the first charter school law was established in Minnesota is noteworthy. Many school officials, teachers unions and school boards remain quite hostile to school choice. They do not want the competition. They want schools mired in their red tape. They do not want charter schools because charter schools are usually free of union control. School boards do not support choice because it gives parents, teachers and community leaders the freedom to operate outside of their political regimes.
TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 17. describes Fenton, a regular Los Angeles school whose faculty voted to convert tocharter status and in grades K3. Yet california implemented similar http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/17/rothstein-r.html
Extractions: Issue Date: 0.0.00 Print Friendly Email Article Fifteen hundred charter schools have been established nationwide since 1991, enrolling 300,000 schoolchildren. The original idea was for parents and teachers, with educational visions, to establish independent publicly funded schools, free from regulations that impede innovation. Superior results would stimulate imitation by regular schools. Charters have been endorsed by both liberal reformers and conservative critics of public education. Chester Finn, Jr., Bruno Manno, and Greg Vanourek are among the latter. (Finn, Ronald Reagan's assistant secretary of education, typically speaks for conservative Republicans in education controversies.) In the authors' Manichaean view, charter schools are not a mere incremental reform, but challenge everything regular schools represent. To justify this polarization, they view public education through a misfocused lens. Another nostrum repeated in Charter Schools in Action is that public schools today function like "antiquated" factories from the "horse and buggy" era. Charter schools, on the other hand, are flexible, reflecting insights of modern corporate management.
K. Lloyd Billingsley On California & Education On National Review Online are fighting to block a charter school for low the recently closed Sacramento Highschool, a project california s voterapproved ban on bilingual education has http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-billingsley081203.asp
Extractions: By K. Lloyd Billingsley ith the recall election only eight weeks away it is far from certain who will be running California next year. But whoever gains office can be sure of one thing. The state's public-education system is in miserable shape, even worse than recent assessments by the federal government. Data gathered as part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act found that about 70 percent of California schools fail to meet standards for yearly improvement. While shocking enough, that statistic fails to convey the depth of the problem. In California, even the best students read poorly. To qualify for the California state-university system, students must score in the top 33 percent of the high-school graduating class. Last year 59 percent of these students had to take remedial courses in English, mathematics, or both. At CSU Dominguez Hills, 75.4 percent of entering freshmen needed remedial instruction in math and 78.9 percent in English. At CSU Los Angeles, 64.3 percent needed remediation in math and 77.9 percent in English The high remediation levels confirm the failure of K-12 education and prompted CSE chancellor Charles Reed to state the obvious, that "a whole generation of kids can't read." If six out of ten of California's best and brightest need remedial work, one may conclude that many of the others are functionally illiterate. They advance due to a system of social promotion that sets up students for failure in higher education or the job market.
Center For Education Reform: Charter School Highlights And Statistics Statistics on charter school activity nationwide, including legislative action, ranking of laws and number of charter schools in each state. charter schools allow teachers, parents, business and http://edreform.com/pubs/chglance.htm
Extractions: As of January 2003, nearly 2,700 charter schools are operating in 36 states and the District of Columbia, serving over 684,000 students. CER has graded the country's 40 charter school laws, ranking them from A to F ( click here to see the latest grades and rankings Charter School States That Have Strong to Medium Strength Laws Grades A-B Arizona (1994), California (1992), Colorado (1993), Delaware (1995), District of Columbia (1996), Florida (1996), Indiana (2001), Massachusetts (1993), Michigan (1993), Minnesota (1991), Missouri (1998), New Jersey (1996), New Mexico (1993), New York (1998), North Carolina (1996), Ohio (1997), Oregon (1999), Pennsylvania (1997), Texas (1995), Wisconsin (1993). Charter School States That Have Weak Laws ( Grades C-F Alaska (1995), Arkansas (1995), Connecticut (1996), Georgia (1993), Hawaii (1994), Idaho (1998) , Illinois (1996) Iowa (2002), Kansas (1994), Louisiana (1995), Mississippi (1997), Nevada (1997), New Hampshire (1995), Oklahoma (1999), Rhode Island (1995), South Carolina (1996), Tennessee (2002), Utah (1998), Virginia (1998)
Ed Resources california Educator. RethinkingSchools Online. eSchool News online. K12 schooltechnology news and information. charter Schools Diana Hadfield 619.275.2434. http://www.thechamberfoundation.org/EdResources.htm
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