Six best e-mails on National School Choice Week
It’s National School Choice Week, which is not easy to forget if your e-mail queue is graced each day with messages that have subject lines like the ones below. There are, according to the week’s Web site, “3,600 events and counting!” to celebrate school choice, which has become one of the primary focuses of school reformers in America today.
(Video from kickoff of National School Choice in Phoenix and the Whistle Stop tour from Los Angeles.)
There are now some 6,000 charter schools with 2.3 million students, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. That is up from the 5,300 charter schools in 2010–11, according to the National Center on Education Statistics. With nearly 50 million students in public elementary and secondary schools, charter schools educate about 4.6 percent of American students. Other forms of school choice include vouchers,
Got Choice? Ubetcha! - Celebrating National School Choice Week
National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) Group: 1 in 5 charter schools not doing well enough to stay open
A group that oversees more than half of the nation's 5,600 charter schools said
as many as one in five U.S. charter schools should be shut down because of
poor academic performance.
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784379_charterschools29.html
as many as one in five U.S. charter schools should be shut down because of
poor academic performance.
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019784379_charterschools29.html
CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
A compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tampering with admissions, grades, attendance and testing; misuse of funds and embezzlement; engaging in nepotism and conflicts of interest; engaging in complicated and shady real estate deals; and/or have been engaging in other questionable, unethical, borderline-legal, or illegal activities. This is also a record of charter school instability and other unsavory tidbits.
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