1. Profiles Of Minnesota Chater Schools - Main Page is the first edition of Profiles of minnesota charter schools. We consider it a work in Profiles of minnesota charter schools is the collective effort of three organizations http://www.centerforschoolchange.org/main.asp

City All Cities Anoka Balaton Bemidji Blaine Brooklyn Center Brooklyn Park Chaska Coon Rapids Crosslake Duluth Echo Edina Emily Faribault Forest Lake Grand Marais Hanska Henderson Houston Hutchinson Inver Grove Heights LaCrescent Lafayette Lindstrom Little Canada Mankato Minneapolis Minnesota City Morton Nerstrand Northfield Osakis Pillager Plymouth Richfield Rochester Rogers Roseville St. Paul Stillwater Waite Park West St. Paul Winona Woodbury Worthington Any Elementary Secondary Both Levels Served Collaborating Partners : Profiles of Minnesota Charter Schools Helping you to make an informed choice This is the first edition of Profiles of Minnesota Charter Schools . We consider it a work in progress. Much of the information presented here was taken from annual reports that charter schools submit to the state Department of Education. This information was supplemented with information from each school and state testing data. Each school was asked to fill in missing information and provide readers with a description of the successes it has had with students. All information (with the exception of state testing data) was either directly provided by and/or verified by each school and each school is responsible for the content. We asked schools to provide the most current data available. Most of the data is from the 2001-2002 school year.

2. Minnesota Charter Schools Evaluation  [CAREI] Papers and Presentations. Research Practice. Other Resources. Staff Directory. Search. Feedback. Career Opportunities. About CAREI. CAREI Home. College of Education and Human Development. University http://education.umn.edu/CAREI/Reports/charter

Reports Papers and Presentations Research Practice Other Resources ... University of Minnesota Minnesota Charter Schools Evaluation Minnesota Charter Schools Evaluation Final Report: May 1998 Main Report: Executive Summary Acknowledgements Preface Introduction ... Table B1: Data Collection Strategies and Response Rates Other information about Charter Schools: More about this research Guiding questions used in the evaluation Profiles of Minnesota Charter Schools Click here to view a print friendly copy of the entire report in rich text format, viewable with any text program (848kb) Click here to view a print friendly copy of the entire page main report document with the Adobe Acrobat Reader format (306kb) Get Adobe Acrobat Reader free: careiweb@umn.edu CAREI 275 Peik Hall 159 Pillsbury Dr. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA Tel: 612-624-0300 Fax: 612-625-3086 Reports CAREI College U of M This page last updated 18 November 2003 . Please send comments to careiweb@tc.umn.edu The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. © 1999 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.

3. CharterSchooLaw.com's Weblog: Some Minnesota Charter Schools Fail To Meet AYP July 08, 2003. Some minnesota charter schools Fail to Meet AYP. According to the StarTribune some minnesota charter schools are not meeting target academic goals have been listed as http://www.charterschoolaw.com/blog/archives/000005.html

CharterSchooLaw.com's Weblog Information for the Charter School Community Main July 08, 2003 Some Minnesota Charter Schools Fail to Meet AYP According to the StarTribune some Minnesota charter schools are not meeting target academic goals have been listed as not making “adequate yearly progress” under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Charter Schools included on the list are: Academia Cesar Chavez El Colegio Charter School Harvest Prep/Seed Academy Heart of the Earth Higher Ground Jennings Minn. Inst. of Technology Minnesota New Country Minnesota Transitions High School for Recording Arts Riverway Skills For Tomorrow Sojourner Truth St. Paul Family Learning Yankton Country Click here to visit the Minnesota Department of Education's site for more information TrackBack

4. CSC Profiles of minnesota charter schools A collaborative project of the Center for School Change, EdVisions Inc., and the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools. http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/school-change/

The Center for School Change is a program of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. The Center works with educators, parents, business people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout the United States to: Increase student achievement. Raise graduation rates. Improve student attitudes toward learning, their schools, and their communities. Strengthen communities through building stronger working relationships among educators, parents, students and other community members. Information about high school reform efforts in St. Paul, Cincinnati, and West Clermont, OH NEW! Profiles of Minnesota Charter Schools A collaborative project of the Center for School Change, EdVisions Inc., and the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools What's New at the Center for School Change? Information on our projects, grants and new research. Current Resources for Minnesota Charter School Developers Charter School Consultant Research Project Upcoming Events St. Paul Job Shadow

5. Resources On Minnesota Issues Charter Schools According to minnesota charter schools A Research Report, parents of children in charter schools cite small class size, curriculum, good teachers and greater http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/issues/charter.asp

Last edited October 2000 Resources on Minnesota Issues Charter Schools This guide is compiled by staff at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library on a topic of interest to Minnesota legislators. It is designed to provide an introduction to the topic, directing the user to a variety of sources, and is not intended to be exhaustive. In particular, it is focused on items available in the Legislative Reference Library. The charter school movement began in 1988 when Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers President, called for the reform of the public schools by establishing 'charter schools'. The basic charter concept is simple: a group of teachers or other would-be educators apply for permission to open a school. The school operates under a "charter" or contract with the local school board or the state. Exempt from most state and local laws and regulations, the school must prove that students have gained the educational skills specified in that initial contract in order to renew the charter. The funding for charter schools parallels that of public schools. In 1991, Minnesota was at the forefront of the nation in passing legislation to create the first legislated charter school. This groundbreaking Minnesota law (

6. Links To The World - Education (K-12) community. Profiles of minnesota charter schools Provided by the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota. uscharterschools http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/links/educat.asp

Links to the World Education (K-12) The sites listed on this page are not created, maintained, or endorsed by the Minnesota Legislature. Minnesota Information Federal Information Articles and Databases Organizations ... Standards and Testing Minnesota Information Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) Connecting the resources of the University of Minnesota with local, state, and national school improvement initiatives. Center for School Change A program of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Includes reseach reports and Minnesota charter school profiles Education Minnesota Education Minnesota is the first merged state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. Financing Education in Minnesota, 2003-2004 A publication of the Minnesota House of Representatives Fiscal Analysis Department. K-12 Finance Reform Task Force Created by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. Maple River Education Coalition Committed to educating the public about the movement of the educational system toward a centrally planned and controlled federal system. Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation (MAEF) Uses business, government, and education resources to promote academic excellence in Minnesota's elementary and secondary schools.

7. Charter School Search Simplified For Minnesota Parents of Charter Schools and the Henderson, Minnesotabased EdVisions Cooperative recently unveiled the Profiles of minnesota charter schools website listing and http://www.iedx.org/article_1.asp?ContentID=EN745&SectionGroupID=PARENTS

8. Record-breaking Year For Minnesota Charter Schools RecordBreaking Year for minnesota charter schools. Families Take Advantage of State’s Available Educational Options. For the second http://www.iedx.org/article_1.asp?ContentID=EN758&SectionGroupID=STATISTICS

9. Local Charter Schools-Within-Schools The Philadelphia charter schoolswithin-schools are created and planned by teachers, but the minnesota charter schools are no longer so restricted as to their http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pbriefs/93/93-2locl.htm

NCREL's Policy Briefs Charter Schools: A New Breed of Public Schools Report 2, 1993 Pathways home page Contents Previous section ... Next section Local Charter Schools-Within-Schools It is worth noting that another version called Charter Schools is not directly related to the legislatively authorized Charter Schools described in this brief. These are local charter schools-within-schools. At local levels throughout the country, education reformers have launched schools-within-schools that predate the legislatively authorized independent Charter Schools. For example, since 1989, charter schools-within-schools fever has swept through the old high schools of Philadelphia. In just four years, 95 charter schools-within-schools have been opened in the city's 22 comprehensive high schools. "We were here first," notes Michelle Fine, a professor at City University of New York's Graduate Center. She served as the designing consultant for the Philadelphia Collaborative, which assists in charter formation. "We were using the language of Charter Schools before state legislation was passed in Minnesota or California." "Many of Philadelphia's schools-within-schools are not options. Students are assigned to them." Joe Nathan

10. Washington Charter Public Schools minnesota charter schools are Lighting the Way. WA CHARTERS, Saturday, December 28, 2002. Dear Friends,. On the day before Christmas http://www.wacharterschools.org/old_updates/dec_28_02.html

Minnesota Charter Schools are Lighting the Way WA CHARTERS, Saturday, December 28, 2002 Dear Friends, On the day before Christmas, the following editorial appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Please share it with your friends and family. REMINDER: The first Charter School Hearing of the 2003 Legislative Session will take place at the state capitol in Olympia one month from today, on Tuesday, January 28, 2002, between 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM. Please join us if you can and testify or just "show the flag" in support of charter schools! Thank you. Best Wishes for 2003! Jim Education Excellence Coalition 4426 - 2nd Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98105-6191 Jim's office phone: 206/634-0589 Jim's cell phone: 206/949-8484 Jim's e-mail address: JimSpady@WAcharterschools.org Editorial: Teaching, Learning Charter Schools Share Success. The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, Dec. 24, 2002 http://www.startribune.com/ stories/561/3551813.html When Minnesota became the first state to offer charter schools a decade ago, the idea was to encourage innovative alternatives to traditional public schools. Educators, parents and others were given the flexibility to use different teaching approaches especially to help children who were failing in so-called "regular" schools.

11. 2/19/97 - Commentary: The Charter School Movement Is Growing Because It's Workin improving student achievement. California, Colorado, and minnesota charter schools have had contracts renewed because of their success. http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-16/21nathan.h16

For background, past stories, and Web links, read our Issues page on Charter Schools Point Five of President Clinton's 10-point plan for education outlines his goals for expanding school choice and charter schools. Read "Activist School Reform," another commentary by Joe Nathan, Feb. 16, 1996. Mr. Nathan shares lessons from five years of helping Minnesota communities change their public schools through the Center for School Change. Read our story "NEA Seeks To Help Start Five Charter Schools," April 24, 1996. Read our story "AFT Cautiously Embraces Charter Schools," Aug. 7, 1996. Read our story "Under New Budget, Charter Schools Cash In," Oct. 30, 1996. Read our story "Advocates Seek Revisions in Many Charter Laws," March 27, 1996. Read our story "New Report Takes Stock of Charter Schools," Feb. 16, 1996. The Charter School Movement Is Growing Because It's Working By Joe Nathan Having failed to block the charter idea, opponents are trying to stifle it by retaining district and union control over schools. The charter school movement is helping solve some of the nation's toughest education problems. Despite powerful, intense opposition, President Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley support the charter movement because it is creating more effective, accountable public schools and stimulating the larger system to improve. Charter advocates have learned several lessons from previous school reform successes and shortcomings.

12. AFT: Research: Publications, Reports And Surveys: Charter School Laws: Do They M Urahn, S. and Stewart, D. minnesota charter schools A Research Report. St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department. December 1994. http://www.aft.org/research/reports/charter/csweb/ref.htm

AFT Home Departments Research Charter Schools Index ... Conclusions Publications, Reports and Surveys CHARTER SCHOOL LAWS: DO THEY MEASURE UP? Download in MS Word 6.0 - 473 kb] REFERENCES American Federation of Teachers. Charter School Briefing Packet . Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Teachers. 1995. American Federation of Teachers. Making Standards Matter 1996: An Annual Fifty-State Report on Efforts to Raise Academic Standards. Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Teachers. 1996. American Federation of Teachers. National Education Standards and Assessments . American Federation of Teachers Convention Resolution, Washington, D.C. August 1992. American Federation of Teachers. Resolution on Charter Schools. Adopted AFT National Convention, Anaheim, Calif., July 1994. American Federation of Teachers. U.S. Education: The Task Before Us . American Federation of Teachers Convention Resolution, Washington, D.C. August 1992. Avenoso, K. "Charter School's Hopes Collide With Reality," The Boston Globe.

13. Archived - Charter Schools And Their Students Chapter III - Summary Massachusetts, Michigan, and minnesota charter schools stand out as serving a much higher percentage of students of color than the average of all public http://www.ed.gov/pubs/charter/chap3c.html

Archived Information A Study of Charter Schools: First Year Report - May 1997 Chapter III Summary The data examined show that charter schools are diverse, in some ways mirroring the diversity of other public schools. This chapter placed this variation into perspective by comparing charter schools to all public schools in the ten states for which charter schools were operating in 1996. The following findings were presented: Most charter schools are small. About 60 percent enroll fewer than 200 students whereas about 16 percent of other public schools have fewer than 200 students. At every grade span of schooling, a higher proportion of charter schools are smaller than other public schools. The difference is most striking at the secondary level with almost fourth-fifths of charter schools enrolling fewer than 200 students in contrast to one-fourth of other public secondary schools. Charter schools include a higher proportion of K-12, K-8, and ungraded schools than other public schools. Most charter schools are newly created.

14. Archived: The Charter School Roadmap, Appendix B. Charter School Resources Center for Applied Research and Education Improvement. minnesota charter schools Evaluation Interim Report. Minneapolis, MN CAREI, 1996. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Roadmap/appB.html

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n The Charter School Roadmap, Appendix B. Charter School Resources Appendix B. Charter School Resources Charter School State Statutes and Websites State/Statute Website AL 14.03.250 et seq. Not available online AZ 15-181 et seq. AK Not available online CA Educ Code 47600 et seq. Not available online CO 22-30.5-101 et seq. Not available online CT 10-66aa et seq. http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/PA/PA000211.htm DE 14-5-501 et seq. Not available online DC 12A-31-101 et seq. Not available online FL Chapter 228.056 GA 20-2-255 et seq. http://www.ganet.org/cgi-bin/pub/ocode/ocgsearch?docname=OCode/G/20/2/2060 HI 296-101 et seq. Not available online ID 52-33-5201 et seq. Not available online IL School Code 27A et seq. Not available online KA 72-1903 et seq. http://www.ksbe.state.ks.us/cgi-bin/searchstatutes?statute=72-1903rpttype=2search=maxres=10andor=AND LA 17:3791 et seq. Not available online MA 71-89 et seq. Not available online MI 380.501 et seq. Not available online MN 120.064 et seq. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/124D/10.html MS House Bill 1672 Not available online NV 385.005 et seq.

15. Charter Schools minnesota charter schools Final Evaluation The table of contents to the May l998 final report links to much useful information. http://712educators.about.com/od/charterschools/

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Education Secondary School Educators Educational Reform Charter Schools Home Essentials Daily Warm Ups Biography Menu ... Curricular How-To's for 7-12 Educators zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Curriculum and Lesson Plans Assessments Technology and Education Learning Theories ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Secondary School Educators newsletter. Search Secondary School Educators Charter Schools Learn more about the purposes behind and the creation of charter schools. Alphabetical Recent Up a category About Charter Schools FAQs, myths and realities, statistics and more from the Center on Educational Reform which advocates charter schools. Administrators - More States Embrace Charter Schools This Education World article includes information from the Hudson Institute survey of 5,000 charter schools. Center for Education Reform - Newsletter An archival list of monthly newsletters which includes topics from a charter school advocate's perspective. Many other resources are at this site. Charting a New Course After visiting more than 50 such schools in 10 states, Bruno Manno of the Hudson Institute makes recommendations for the D.C. district.

16. Charter Schools: The Smiling Face Of Disinvestment // Alex Molnar Because minnesota charter schools were free of all legal requirements placed on public schools, except those clearly spelled out in their charters, the charter http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/199610/molnar.html

Overview Current Issue Archived Issues Study Guides ... Contact the Staff October 1996 New Options for Public Education Pages 9-15 Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment Charter schools are hot. But will commercial motives, money problems, and unproven boasts about student gains cool down the education reform of the '90s? Alex Molnar Everyone, it seems, loves charter schools. Time magazine has called them the "New Hope for Public Schools" (Wallis 1994). The New Democrat , the Democratic Leadership Council's journal, says charter school advocates are "Rebels With a Cause" (Mirga 1994). And The New York Times (in an unusual note of irony) calls them the "Latest 'Best Hope' in U.S. Education" (Applebome 1994). American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker launched the movement when, in a 1988 National Press Club speech, he called for empowering teachers by creating "charter" schools that focused on professional development and had a clear commitment to improving student achievement (Sautter 1993). Since then, the rise of charter schools to the top of the educational reform agenda has been spectacular. To many educators, parents, and politicians, the charter school idea represented a public education alternative to private school voucher proposals. It was an idea they could embrace enthusiastically because it seemed to protect public education as an institution and at the same time provide for fundamental reform and systemic "restructuring." As a bonus, charter schools had more media sex appeal than, say, site-based management.

17. Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder - SCHOOL REALLY MATTERS Or, previously existing public schools may convert to charter status.” In coming weeks, will profile various minnesota charter schools. http://spokesman-recorder.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=19404&sID=38

18. Education World ® - Administrators: Government Releases Charter School Report Massachusetts, Michigan, and minnesota charter schools stand out in that they enroll a higher percentage of students of color than the average of all public http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin011.shtml

EdWorld Internet Topics Sponsored links: Mondera Coupons Earn 90% Profit! Garden Decor Amazon Coupon Codes Coupon Codes Home Decor ... Walden University Graduate degrees in Education Host Department Web Hosting Alberghi Finanza ... Copy DVD Register To Win a $100 GiftCard Visit Target.com Vacanze Accessori Computer Career Education ... School Choice School Administrators Article S C H O O L A D M I N I S T R A T O R S A R T I C L E Government Releases Charter School Report "A Study of Charter Schools: First-Year Report" was recently released by the U.S. Department of Education. The study includes the first definitive survey of all charter schools (90% of all charter schools in operation as of the 1995-96 school year). "A Study of Charter Schools: First-Year Report" was recently released by the U.S. Department of Education. The report examines the role of states in the charter movement, describes basic characteristics of charter schools and their students, and examines why people create charter schools and what barriers they encounter. What follows are excerpts from the executive summary of the report. The report was written and the study is being conducted by RPP International and the University of Minnesota with support from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Improvement (OERI). The full text of

19. Minnesota Legislature - Geographic Information Systems 2002 minnesota charter schools PDF PNG Size 34 x 44 , Color A map showing minnesota charter schools for 2002 school year with 2002 Legislative and http://www.gis.leg.mn/html/maps/school_distr.html

District Information (pdf) Info by House Districts: - Hse Distr. by Cities and Towns - Hse Distr. by Cong. District - Hse Distr. by County - Hse Distr. by School Districts - Hse Distr. by Zip Code - Cities and Towns by Hse Distr. - Cong. Distr. by Hse Distr. - Counties by Hse Distr. - School Distr. by Hse Distr. - Zip Codes by Hse Distr. Info by Senate Districts: - Sen Distr. by Cities and Towns - Sen Distr. by Cong. Distr. - Sen Distr. by County - Sen Distr. by School Distr. - Sen Distr. by Zip Code - Cities and Towns by Sen Distr. - Cong. Distr. by Sen Distr. - Counties by Sen Distr. - School Distr. by Sen Distr. - Zip Codes by Sen Distr. Info by Congressional Districts: - Cong. Distr. by Cities and Towns - Cong. Distr. by County - Cong. Distr. by Hse District - Cong. Distr. by School District - Cong. Distr. by Sen District - Cong. Distr. by Zip Code - Cities and Towns by Cong. Distr. - Counties by Cong. Distr. - Hse Distr. by Cong. Distr. - School Distr. by Cong. Distr. - Sen Distr. by Cong. Distr. - Zip Codes by Cong. Distr. House Maps (pdf) State View Metro View Senate Maps (pdf) State View Metro View Congress Maps (pdf) State View Metro View GIS Home Page About GIS Office District Profiles District Finder ... LCC Home Page School Districts To view Image or PDF version of the maps, click on a product below

20. NEA: Questions And Answers (1996). minnesota charter schools Evaluation Interim Report. St. Paul, MN Author. To order, call 612/2964213. Center for Education Reform. (1996). http://www.nea.org/charter/accnt98.html

For and About Members Help for Parents Press Center Legislative Action Center ... Vouchers Updated: Dec 10, 2002 Charter Schools Research NEA Resources Other Resources April 1998 Charter Schools: A Look at Accountability Accountability in charter schools is a bottom line concern in this new experiment in public schooling. Charter schools receive freedom and autonomy in exchange for improvements in learning and climate. Are charter schools indeed accountable to their constituencies: students, their parents, and the taxpaying public at large? This paper looks at the issue of accountability in three broad categories: student learning; equity concerns, and public accountability. In each category, the goal is to raise points that can, in the long run, lead to the weakening of this experiment. Policymakers owe it to students, their parents, educators and the public to ensure that charter laws and the oversight of charter implementation will lead to strong performance and equitable outcomes for all involved. I. Student Learning II. Equity Concerns III. Public Accountability IV. Resources I. Student Learning Standards Not Clear.

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