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Charter School Facilities: Your Money, Their Property
by Sue Legg, Pat Drago, and Ruth Melton
Charter schools are public schools, right? Well yes, but they are owned and managed by private companies. Most of their facilities are privately owned. If they close, the private company retains the buildings.
Charter schools should receive the same amount of money as district schools, right? Seems fair until you think about it.
Let’s think about it. We need to, there is a bill in the legislature.
“Togetherness”, the Anti-Community’s Community?
Divided Community
Now television is in the charter fray. In this review of the series “Togetherness”, Joshua Leibner in Salon magazine describes its charter school subplot. Are neighborhood schools the “bogeyman for all of society’s ills?, he asks. He wonders if for white people of their education and class, all the education reform nonsense might feel right for minority kids–but just not for their children? The setting for the series is in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles. This is a real place where both Leibner and the show’s producers actually live. Is the show fact or fiction? Continue reading
Resegregation in Delaware. Why?
The ACLU has filed suit in Delaware. Why is this happening in our schools? What does the ACLU propose as a remedy?
Read about the causes of resegregation in Delaware. The choices people are making have consequences.
Sent by Alibina Burn, Delaware
Facing the Future
by Krista Soboh
I received this post when we were just launching the blog. I liked it, and I saved it.
Now our posts have greater scope, but I believe we still are most concerned with the here and now. After all, we have to manage the present in order to have a reasonable future.
Krista suggests we have to define the problems facing our schools, not the current issues, but those that are relevant to the world our children will confront. My kids talk about the ‘skill sets’ they need for whatever job comes up. They expect change, not careers. They are prepared.Continue reading
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