Diane Ravitch On The State Of The Public School
The popular narrative around public schools is that they’re failing and that teachers and administrators are to blame. Reformers argue for charter schools. They call for evaluating teachers based on...
View ArticleParents Pack Meetings With Charter School Hopefuls
The Washington State Charter School Commission is wrapping up three weeks of public hearings for 19 proposed schools.
View ArticleCharter Commission Advised To Approve Only Six Schools Thursday
The Washington State Charter School Commission is scheduled to vote Thursday on the 19 charter applications it received.The commission hired outside evaluators, who advised that only six out of the 19...
View ArticleSeattle’s First Charter School To Serve Traumatized Children
Marcie Sillman talks with Dan Seydel, board president and charter development chair for First Place School. Starting fall 2014, Seattle's first private charter school will be serving children who have...
View ArticleIdaho Students Looking At A Re-do After Charter School Falls Short
About 30 high school freshmen and sophomores who attended Odyssey Charter School in Idaho Falls, Idaho, may have to repeat classes -- or even an entire grade -- next year after the Idaho Public Charter...
View ArticleHere Are Washington's New Prospective Charter Schools
Seven organizations have filed to open charter schools in Washington in the state’s second-ever round of applications.The proposed schools include California-based charter chains… a bilingual school…...
View ArticleHigh-Performing Charter Schools May Improve Students' Health
Many people are intensely interested in how publicly funded charter schools affect children, and that includes not just their academic achievement but their health.Researchers from UCLA and the Rand...
View ArticleSame As Common Schools? High Court Ponders Charter Schools
The Washington State Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday regarding the constitutionality of the voter-approved charter school law.
View ArticleTeachers Go Door-Knocking In Nashville
It's Saturday in East Nashville, Tenn., and LaTonya White finds herself knocking on a stranger's door. It's awkward. Someone peers out at her through the window. White looks away, pretending not to...
View ArticleWhat's Next After Washington's First Charter School Falters?
Marcie Sillman talks with Steve Sundquist, chair of the Washington State Charter School Commission, about the probation of Washington's first charter school and what it means for the many schools set...
View ArticleThe Struggle To Breathe Life Back Into Empty Schools
Virginia Savage lives in a part of north St. Louis, Mo., that's filled with vacant buildings, including Marshall Elementary. It has been closed for years now, and vines crawl into the building's...
View ArticleThree Seattle-Area Charter Schools Prepare To Open
On a recent sunny afternoon, a work party was underway at a low-slung building just south of Seattle that will soon become Rainier Prep, a charter middle school.School leader Maggie O’Sullivan bounced...
View ArticleOne Family Reacts To Supreme Court Charter School Decision
Washington state charter schools are open as usual today despite Friday’s state Supreme Court decision that charters are unconstitutional. Families of charter school students are trying to figure out...
View ArticleAudit At Washington's First Charter School Finds Uncredentialed Teachers,...
Five of the eight teachers at Washington state's first charter school were not certificated when classes began last year. That's just one of many problems in a newly-released state audit of First Place...
View ArticleWashington Charter Schools Find Another Source Of Public Money
Washington state’s charter schools are about to lose state funding, so they’re exploring an option that might allow them to stay open.
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