Rather than lug around a filing cabinet of individual student goals to track progress year to year, teachers at the school adopted a new program this year called FreshGrade, which has digital profiles of all students and their grades on assignments and tests. The data showed that magnets scored higher than charters.
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On appeal to the Commonwealth Court, the district reasoned that because the law specifically states that charter schools in Philadelphia are permitted to operate in more than one location, the Legislature meant to prevent charters in other school districts from using more than one building.
There is no denying that Ohio’s charter school oversight system is not working.
Charter schools remains a hot issue in the Bay Area, as Rocketship Education and other organizations seek to expand the number of charter schools in Santa Clara County.
Federal rules say states must give districts and charter schools at least 85 percent of their previous year’s allocation of Title I funding. But a much fairer comparison is between charter schools and magnet schools (“Test scores complicate the debate over expanding L.A. charter schools”, Los Angeles Times, Sep. 26).
Those who want to limit the growth of taxpayer-funded alternative schools say the decision has the potential to increase the strain charter schools place on public school districts. Charter schools began in Minnesota in 1992, and we now have about 157 schools enrolling over 40,000 K-12 students.
It won the Bethlehem Area School Board’s approval of a plan to move into the former Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts building at 603 E. Broad St. last month after satisfying board members that renovations to the building would be done in accordance with public bidding rules. While ideas for reform seem to be plenty (and misdirected toward creating charter schools), reformers should make an effort to focus their attention on supporting neighborhood schools.
The association argues that forcing students – especially special education students – to transition to another public school now would be harmful to their education.
The difference among all three comes down to preference.
“Those conditions include requiring the state to submit quarterly reports on its grant activities and budget”, said U.S. Department of Education Press Secretary Dorie Nolt.
Not surprisingly, school closures can have a large and negative impact on student achievement. Charter schools are open to any interested public school student and are shut down when deemed as inefficiently increasing student performance ratings. The school board denied the request, and the charter school appealed to the Charter School Appeal Board.
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As North Carolina lawmakers continue to push for an ever-more-rapid expansion of charter schools – even at the expense of traditional public schools – a new report released this week by the Center for Media and Democracy raises additional questions about the merits of such a course. A majority of the charter schools, many of them located in San Jose, saw student proficiency in both subjects fall short of the county-wide average, including numerous Rocketship Education charter schools that teach mostly low-income students.
