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All aboard the charters? The state of a movement.(EDUCATION)(charter schools)
CHARTER schools have taught us much. Since Minnesota enacted America's first charter law in 1991, 39 states have followed suit and eager school reformers have created some 4,000 of these independent public schools. About 3,600 are still operating today, enrolling approximately a million kids, 2 percent of all U.S. elementary and secondary pupils. More than a dozen cities--including Detroit, Cleveland, and Milwaukee--now have charter sectors that serve at least one in every six children. These numbers rise annually--and would balloon if the market were able to operate freely, unconstrained by legislative compromises, funding and facilities shortfalls, and local pushback ...
- Charter schools and collective bargaining: compatible marriage or illegitimate...
- Magazine article from: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Malin, Martin H. Kerchner, Charles Taylor June 22, 2007 700+ words
...DOCTRINE AND CHARTER SCHOOLS. A. Which...Charter School Teacher Representation...A CHARTER SCHOOL LABOR LAW...INTRODUCTION Charter schools are in fashion...notions that charter schools will break the public school monopoly...
- Charter Schools: To Enhance Education's Monitoring and Research, More Charter...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony March 1, 2005 700+ words
...states' systems for allowing charter schools flexibility and ensuring school performance and financial integrity...responsibility for enforcing school improvement actions in charter schools not achieving annual school performance goals under NCLBA...
- Charter schools: implications for teachers and administrators.
- Magazine article from: The Clearing House Fusarelli, Lance D. September 1, 2002 700+ words
...total student enrollment in public schools. The Debate over Charter Schools The charter school reform movement has generated heated...most difficult to educate. What Are Charter Schools? A charter school is an autonomous, publicly funded...
- Charter Schools: Facts, Fictions, Future.(Excerpt)
- Magazine article from: World and I Lieberman, Myron May 1, 2004 700+ words
...of public school students in...are now in charter schools. Charter...problems faced by charter schools, although...with charter school laws provide...comparable public school students...objective of charter schools, but virtually...
- Charter schools don't solve real problems.(CREATIVE CONTROVERSY)
- Magazine article from: The Humanist Swinehart, Lisa September 1, 2005 700+ words
...every public school's mission...like all charter schools, diverts...feature of charter schools is that they...many public school requirements...permits, charter schools are exempt...of public school teachers are...
- Charter schools surge as parents seek options.
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Price, Joyce Howard May 12, 1998 700+ words
...Washington, 20 charter schools have been approved and school authorities say...power to create charter schools operating outside the public school system. Several city-sponsored charter schools could be in business...
- CHARTER SCHOOLS GAIN IN TESTING 57 PERCENT MEET FEDERAL TARGETS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) September 22, 2005 700+ words
...the California Charter Schools Association. ``If the school district were to not just support more charter schools but also allow...the whole public school system,'' Wohlstetter...the LAUSD's charter schools were outperforming...
- Charter schools lag in serving the neediest ; Disparity widens rift with...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe James Vaznis August 12, 2009 700+ words
...students in the school system. Collectively...16 Boston charter schools taught fewer...third of the charter schools. The figures...about charter school success that...Superintendents, school committees...long accused charter schools of dodging...
Source: HighBeam Research, All aboard the charters? The state of a movement.(EDUCATION)(charter...