charter school
an autonomous public school created by a contract between a sponsor, as a local school district or corporation, and an organizer, as a group of teachers or a community group, often with a curriculum or focus that is not traditional.
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AB 104 would require the state superintendent to allocate funding for school districts, charter schools and county offices of education to address learning loss, and would require those entities to develop plans outlining how the money will be used.
The requirement would not, however, be extended to private schools, and the rules would be looser for charter schools.
Betsy DeVos is gone — but ‘DeVosism’ sure isn’t. Look at what Florida, New Hampshire and other states are doing. | Valerie Strauss | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostAbout 10 percent of public school students in California attend charter schools — both brick-and-mortar and online.
Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools | Valerie Strauss | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostRace to the Top encouraged states to authorize charter school legislation and to increase the number of privately managed charters, and to pass legislation that tied teachers’ evaluations to the test scores of their students.
What you need to know about standardized testing | Valerie Strauss | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostHe also intends to teach lessons to students at Dayton Early College Academy, a K-12 charter school with 1,300 students, 75 percent of them from low-income families.
Meet the people paying $55 million each to fly to the space station | Christian Davenport | January 26, 2021 | Washington Post
Nothing,” Klein notes, “was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.
South Brunswick charter school opened its doors this summer at a temporary site.
At This Creepy Libertarian Charter School, Kids Must Swear ‘to Be Obedient to Those in Authority’ | ProPublica | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe first—and it turns out, only—stop was Douglass Academy, a new charter school in downtown Wilmington.
At This Creepy Libertarian Charter School, Kids Must Swear ‘to Be Obedient to Those in Authority’ | ProPublica | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2013, the state legislature passed a sweeping charter school bill pushed by Mitchell that loosened oversight and regulation.
At This Creepy Libertarian Charter School, Kids Must Swear ‘to Be Obedient to Those in Authority’ | ProPublica | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe union in New York City—the United Federation of Teachers—actually runs its own public charter school in Brooklyn.
Why Is Progressive Hero Bill de Blasio Throwing Charter Schools Out of New York City? | Conor P. Williams | March 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJosefina is a Spanish teacher at a charter school, and they have a 2-yearold daughter.
State of the Union Addresses of George W. Bush | George W. BushWhen I became president, there was just one independent public charter school in all America.
When I became President, there was just one independent public charter school in all America.
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