Failing the Test: School Solutions and Turnarounds
Elana Goldbaum was happy working at Burbank Junior High School, a public school located in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood, until she was let go during the recession in 2008. ...
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Failing the Test: Nine Solution Takeaways
Despite the trendy popularity of charter schools in some circles, their wholesale replacement of traditional public schools is unnecessary. Not only do decades of data and research show this, but ...
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Failing the Test: Charter School Powerbrokers
The Billion Dollar Investment Charter proponents, most notably the Walton Family Foundation, contribute large amounts of money to expand charter schools in select cities around the nation. The foundation says ...
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Failing the Test: Searching for Accountability in Charter Schools
The original concept of charter schools emerged nationally more than two decades ago and was intended to support community efforts to open up education. Albert Shanker, then president of the ...
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Failing the Test: UCLA’s John Rogers on Charter Schools and Exclusion of Special Needs Students
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Failing the Test: Charter Schools’ Winners and Losers
At first, Rosalba Naranjo was thrilled that her two daughters were attending Richard Merkin Middle School, a charter school located near downtown Los Angeles. After all, the Pico Union neighborhood ...
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Failing the Test: Measuring Charter School Performance
Charter schools, their lobbyists and choice proponents often discuss the underperformance of traditional public schools in the public discourse. But what data should be trusted by parents and policymakers alike ...
READ MOREFailing the Test: A New Series Examines Charter Schools
When the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, the $490 million blueprint to turn half of Los Angeles’ public school system into charter schools, was first leaked to Los Angeles Times ...
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Failing the Test: Oakland’s Charter School Tipping Point
Last September’s sensational leak of the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, a half-billion-dollar plan to double the number of charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), sparked ...
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Cyber Bunk: How Online Charter Schools Fail Students
You get what you pay for, right? When it comes to online charter schools, apparently not. Despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from California’s taxpayers, California Virtual Academies (CAVA), ...
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