These are the applicants for the 2012 openings. Wednesday, the Council will pick the initial winners for January interviews. Excel Version. PDF Version.
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2 million public charter schoolers!
MIAMI — The number of students attending charter schools has soared to more than 2 million as states pass laws lifting caps and encouraging their expansion, according to figures released Wednesday.
The growth represents the largest increase in enrollment over a single year since charter schools were founded nearly two decades ago. In all, more than 500 new charter schools were opened in the 2011-12 school [...]
Charter Incubation as a Strategy for Improving the Charter School Sector
This Fordham brief explores the charter incubator idea…
Key Recommendations:
1. Eliminate charter caps, but set a high bar for new charter approvals
2. Encourage closure or restructuring of low-performing schools, including
through charter authorizer accountability
3. Fund charter schools equitably for operations and facilities, and
allocate public funding to incubation
4. Provide charter schools substantial operational autonomy in areas such as
staffing, curriculum, budgets, and scheduling
5. Streamline approval and [...]
CPS Signs Gates Foundation Charter Deal
Chicago is one of 14 cities that will be eligible for millions of dollars in competitive grant funding announced today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grants totaling $40 million are expected to be awarded to 10 school districts that have signed foundation-backed agreements to promote cooperation between charter schools and traditional public schools. Chicago signed its agreement, known as [...]
Kennedy Charter basketball
Kennedy Charter School has been playing basketball for a few years now, but the team has never been a factor or anywhere close to one of the state’s elite teams .
That’s changed now.
The Eagles are 4-0 and winning by an average of 53 points per game. At least four of them will play Division I college basketball at a high level, and Monday, Kennedy Charter [...]
Mathematica Policy Research and the University of Washington’s Center for Reinventing Public Education report
The study, titled “Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts,” was produced by Mathematica Policy Research and the University of Washington’s Center for Reinventing Public Education. An interim report was published in November 2010, and new results were released in October. Read more here…
Kenan Fellows Program is for charter educators also!!
Thanks to the: Friday Report www.fridayreport@ncforum.org
Kenan Fellows Application Period Opens for 2013 Class
The Kenan Fellows Program will accept applications for fellowships December 1, 2011 through January 23, 2012. Classroom teachers selected as Kenan Fellows represent the most outstanding and committed educators across North Carolina. As Fellows, they engage in partnerships with distinguished scientists, university faculty and professional educators to develop innovative curricula for use [...]
Union Academy wins $15,000 of HON furniture in the “Staples Advantage” drawing!
Staples/HON Furniture $15,000 drawing- Union Academy won the classroom full of furniture! The winner was picked from Alliance entries at the HON booth at our 2011 conference plus each member school got an extra entry for every $500 spent under our Staples Advantage program between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 2011. If you are not using our program call Kristin Brucker today at 919-608-3274! You [...]
Board member needed
A national provider is planning to apply for the state’s first virtual charter in April of 2012. We are looking for a business sector representative who can augment our existing board of six members.
Expertise in financial management, leadership, and marketing is preferred as is C level or higher experience.
Contact: Bryan Setser bryan.setser@gmail.com
Francine Delany School puts teachers in control of classes and school policy
ASHEVILLE — It’s difficult to imagine teachers and their spouses mortgaging their homes and using their savings to fund a school facility, but it happened in the 1990s during the first wave of public charter schools to open in the state.
Although the General Assembly passed a law allowing the innovative and creative public schools to exist, legislators refused to provide a penny in funding to [...]
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