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Teacher cooperatives: what happens when teachers run the school?(feature)
Cris Parr stands in a sunny room in an old high school surveying rows of drill presses, saws, and other outmoded industrial behe moths. Clearly no one has taught shop here in a long time, not since the goal was to prepare kids from the struggling neighborhood outside for a life in the trades.
Parr would like someone to haul the machines away so she can replace them with drafting tables configured for computer-aided design. In most high schools, this would be the principal's problem, or something for facilities management. She's a teacher, but it's very much her responsibility to change this room full of curios into a place that graduates kids ready for a ...
- New Country fills gaps on Main St. and in education; Though they face common...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Smetanka, Mary Jane April 26, 1996 700+ words
...where most charter schools have tried...Minnesota New Country School stands...distinguishes New Country from other charter schools is that it...ensure that New Country remains true...problem with charter schools is that visionaries...
- Entenza calls many charter schools lax; Legislator says they violate state law...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Walsh, James August 13, 2004 700+ words
...of Minnesota's 88 charter schools were late turning...Twenty-six of 80 charter schools turned in late audits...before. - Twenty-six charter schools did not provide requested...adviser at Minnesota New Country School in Henderson...
- Charter schools; Clinton honors what Minnesota began.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) May 4, 2000 700+ words
...effort to open more charter schools to serve inner-city...best. Not only are charter schools serving students in...schools have adopted the New Country School's system...some year-round charter schools; Minneapolis and...
- In the Twin Cities, the push is on to open new charter schools.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Inskip, Leonard February 17, 1998 700+ words
...assistance such groups need to start charter schools. Starting a school from scratch...stories, including the Minnesota New Country School at Le Sueur, New Visions...after President Clinton endorsed charter schools. City Academy works with dropouts...
- Charter schools attracting Japanese; Educators study U.S....
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 9, 2004 700+ words
...teacher, visited charter schools in Minnesota and California...organization, visited 10 charter schools in Minnesota, its...students of Minnesota New Country School were invited...Promote Japanese-Style Charter Schools, a nonprofit organization...
- How best to grade charter schools? Few charters outperform traditional schools...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Walsh, James June 9, 2003 700+ words
...reasons that judging charter schools by current testing...differences among charter schools and try to generalize...Thomas, a teacher at New Country School, a charter...and flexibility that charter schools use to reach struggling...
- BACK TO SCHOOL; Charter schools feel the pinch; With larger amounts of money...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Draper, Norman September 7, 2009 700+ words
...At Minnesota New Country School in Henderson...Minnesota's 154 charter schools, the upcoming...his and other charter schools will turn to...Minnesota New Country Schools, with...and scrounging Charter schools have scrimped...
- INSIDE CHARTER SCHOOLS: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Mathews, Jay April 1, 2001 700+ words
...that the growth of charter schools is making regular...tests, not the new charter schools in the neighborhood...the fact that the charter schools with the most disadvantaged...like the Minnesota New Country School profiled by...
