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Jersey Jazzman: Facts About Newark Charter Schools
Jersey Jazzman: Facts About Newark Charter Schools:
Facts About Newark Charter Schools
It's just so old:
I just went over the clear differences between charter school and public, district school student populations in Camden. A few tweaks of the code, and here's pretty much the same data for Newark.
As a proportion of total population, the Newark Public Schools enroll many more students with the costliest special education disabilities. Again, we've been over this time and again: while some Newark charters have upped their enrollments of Jersey Jazzman: Facts About Newark Charter Schools:
Facts About Newark Charter Schools
It's just so old:
Their main criticisms of charters are that they skim the best students from the district and draw money away from district schools. But Newark's universal enrollment system puts a firm hand on the scale to ensure that charters take their fair share of harder-to-educate kids. And in Camden, charter leaders run neighborhood schools that guarantee enrollment to all area students. A kid's fate is not left to a lottery. [emphasis mine]That is the Star-Ledger Editorial Board, once again writing a love letter to charters. Once again, I am here to set them straight.
I just went over the clear differences between charter school and public, district school student populations in Camden. A few tweaks of the code, and here's pretty much the same data for Newark.
As a proportion of total population, the Newark Public Schools enroll many more students with the costliest special education disabilities. Again, we've been over this time and again: while some Newark charters have upped their enrollments of Jersey Jazzman: Facts About Newark Charter Schools:
Party down: State, national progressives are getting involved in local school board elections | Education | Dallas News
Party down: State, national progressives are getting involved in local school board elections | Education | Dallas News:
Party down: State, national progressives are getting involved in local school board elections
Party down: State, national progressives are getting involved in local school board elections
The Texas Democratic Party wants a larger pool of attractive, experienced candidates.
So does the national progressive movement.
Both groups are willing to dive into nonpartisan school board elections in Texas to make that happen.
The Texas Democrats and Our Revolution — the remnants of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign — have taken the unusual step of jumping into a Dallas ISD race, endorsing challenger Lori Kirkpatrick over incumbent Dustin Marshall. Kirkpatrick finished first in the District 2 race, just 14 votes shy of avoiding a runoff election with Marshall, despite being a political novice.
The state party threw similar support behind nearly a dozen school board candidates in the Dallas and Houston areas.
Depending on the race, such endorsements could have a significant impact, legitimizing one candidate over another and potentially transforming school board policies. All of this appears to have been done, though, without too much bother about the specifics of the local races.
Such efforts are part of a wider movement to incubate a group of candidates for future partisan elections — "building a bench," as it’s called.
“The Democrats have been stymied in terms of expanding their bench in partisan state-level offices,” said Rice University political scientist Mark Party down: State, national progressives are getting involved in local school board elections | Education | Dallas News: