Mayoral Control Stopped in Bridgeport Connecticut
“Elections shouldn’t exist”: The new war on school boards
The new education “reform” fight is over who chooses school boards: the mayor or the people. One city fought back
By Josh Eidelson Salon Monday, Dec 31, 2012
On Election Day 2012, as voters around the country chose between two presidential candidates who both touted policies that would make it easier to fire teachers, voters in Bridgeport, Conn., rebuffed a referendum backed byMichelle Rhee, Michael Bloomberg and the local Democratic Party. By a seven-point margin, Bridgeport rejected city charter changes that would have ended school board elections. It’s the latest round in Bridgeport’s multi-year battle over a below-the-radar front in America’s reform wars: Who should pick school board members – mayors or voters?
“Nobody thinks that a bunch of hedge fund managers from Greenwich are going to make their schools any
Charter Chain (Noble Network of Charters) Profits from Student “Misbehavior”
The Noble charter chain in Chicago has picked up millions of dollars from the Chicago public school system for running its dozen charter schools.
Next year it is budgeted to receive $69.9 million.
It is also getting a nice chunk of change by fining parents when their children misbehave.
The schools charge $5 for each rule-breaking.
This is not the first complaint about the charter chain’s policy of fining students for misbehavior. Last year, a civil rights group complained after learning that Noble had collected nearly $200,000 in the previous year by fining
The new education “reform” fight is over who chooses school boards: the mayor or the people. One city fought back
By Josh Eidelson Salon Monday, Dec 31, 2012
On Election Day 2012, as voters around the country chose between two presidential candidates who both touted policies that would make it easier to fire teachers, voters in Bridgeport, Conn., rebuffed a referendum backed byMichelle Rhee, Michael Bloomberg and the local Democratic Party. By a seven-point margin, Bridgeport rejected city charter changes that would have ended school board elections. It’s the latest round in Bridgeport’s multi-year battle over a below-the-radar front in America’s reform wars: Who should pick school board members – mayors or voters?
“Nobody thinks that a bunch of hedge fund managers from Greenwich are going to make their schools any
Charter Chain (Noble Network of Charters) Profits from Student “Misbehavior”
Noble Charters Make Money on Student Fines
by dianeravThe Noble charter chain in Chicago has picked up millions of dollars from the Chicago public school system for running its dozen charter schools.
Next year it is budgeted to receive $69.9 million.
It is also getting a nice chunk of change by fining parents when their children misbehave.
The schools charge $5 for each rule-breaking.
This is not the first complaint about the charter chain’s policy of fining students for misbehavior. Last year, a civil rights group complained after learning that Noble had collected nearly $200,000 in the previous year by fining