Words You Won’t Hear From Florida’s Education Policy Makers and Shapers About Charter Schools
Missouri finally had enough of Imagine Schools. After calls from the mayor of St. Louis and the state education commissioner, the Missouri Board of Education voted on Tuesday to close all Imagine Charter Schools in St. Louis. From St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, Elisa Crouch:
The move follows months of increasing scrutiny of the schools’ financial, leadership and academic problems. The schools are operated by Virginia-based Imagine Schools Inc., a for-profit charter school management company. Students enrolled at the schools make up about one-third of the city’s charter school population.
State test results from 2011 showed that nearly all students at the city’s Imagine schools were