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Rocketship’s target: 29 charters in San Jose | Thoughts on Public Education

Rocketship’s target: 29 charters in San Jose | Thoughts on Public Education

Rocketship’s target: 29 charters in San Jose - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

Rocketship Education, the charter organization whose hybrid online/classroom model has drawn national attention and foundation dollars, wants the Santa Clara County Office of Education to let it open 20 more elementary schools, primarily in its hometown of San Jose, in the next seven years. Together with the three schools now operating and six already approved, Rocketship [...]

Worth a second look - by Kathryn Baron

Thoughts from a Weis-man A few days after the May revise last week, we reported on a budget forum in San Jose sponsored by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation. In his opening remarks, Santa Clara County School Superintendent Chuck Weis delivered a blunt assessment of California’s public school financing over the past 40 years. He noted [...]