Charter School Realities: Red Bank, NJ
Let me show a pie chart Bruce Baker made that I keep coming back to:
This is from a dataset I made (with Bruce's guidance) of charter schools and their affiliated charter management organizations (CMOs). We hear a lot these days about KIPP or Uncommon or Success Academies; however, we hear much less about Academica or Charter Schools USA or White Hat. What do we really know about these schools?
Further: what about that "OTHER" category? Who runs these schools? How do they perform? How do they affect their local districts?
One goal I have over the next year at this blog is to spend some more time looking at these lesser-known charter schools -- the ones who, in reality, are the backbone of the charter sector. Let me start here in New Jersey with a story that doesn't involve a high profile charter leader like Eva Moskowitz or a high profile CMO like KIPP; however, it's a story that I believe is quite instructive...
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Red Bank might be best known as the hometown of the great Count Basie. Like many small towns in New Jersey, it runs its own K-8 school district; high school students attend a larger "regional" high school that is fed my two other K-8 districts, Little Silver and
- See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2016/01/charter-school-realities-red-bank-nj.html#sthash.edcdwfTr.dpuf
