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A Christmas Gift
A Leaguer knows that consistently sharing information has an impact. Nevertheless, it is reassuring to find evidence that people are listening, reading, and thinking about issues we believe are important. Today the Editor of the Gainesville Sun described his Education on School Reforms. He cites his sources and includes our work. See how he puts together the issues.
The New Year is approaching. Make a resolution to regularly get the message out. Some one will be listening who can help.
Collaboration or Conflict?
District-charter school collaborations are the new buzz words. Like many slogans, it sounds reasonable on the surface. Twenty-one projects were launched by the U.S. Department of Education as an exemplary collaboration competition in 2012. An interim report by a Washington state based research institute reported, however, that only four of the 21 projects had even limited success. Now, the State of Florida is initiating its own project to entice high achieving charter management companies to collaborate with district schools in Florida.
In this post, we review the Center for Reinventing Public Education’s Interim Report District-Charter Collaboration Compact. What is supposed to be mutually beneficial? What do high quality charter management firms have to offer school districts?
‘High quality’ charter management companies are those that Florida hopes will open schools in major cities. Their approaches to teaching and learning are distinctive. Demographic and student retention data from these companies must be closely studied. We have found some interesting data.Continue reading
Education for Sale
by Jean Schiffbauer
In tumultuous times, is it possible to define the ‘public interest’ as something more than a compilation of private and powerful commercial concerns? When schools are public in name only, do we the public even know what is being taught or how? We will run a series of posts on curriculum issues facing our schools. Here is our first post by a long time curriculum specialist at a K-12 laboratory school.Continue reading
Sweeping the Money Under the Rug?
Remember the post on Profit Trumps Public Interest? It was the one the National Council of State Legislatures put out on for-profit education management companies. We discovered that National Heritage Academies had some serious problems. Propublica published a follow-up article on the for-profit National Heritage Academies.
Where Does the Money Go?
The Michigan State Board of Education has now asked the legislature to outlaw “sweep contracts” to for-profit companies, but the legislator did not listen. Continue reading
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