Charter Leaders,
Thanks to Andrew Lewis, Rena Youngblood, CEO Tony Roberts, et al, at the Georgia Charter Schools Association for the hospitality last week. I attended their fantastic conference in Atlanta. Speaking of conferences…
We are officially at the beautiful Sheraton Raleigh July 11-13 for the first annual Alliance conference for our state’s charter schools! We have an impressive early list of speakers including Michigan’s Dr. Brian Carpenter and former Office of Charter School’s Dr. Otho Tucker. Get this on your calendar now. Information and registration links will be ready in two weeks.
“advancing quality education”
Our Tuesday, 16th High Point meeting to discuss legal issues surrounding allocation of local education dollars was very productive. Richard Vinroot shared his lawsuit basics with representatives from about 15 schools. We will send you the video of his presentation next week. A schedule of payments relating to local allocations was made Feb. 2, 2010 and is attached.
Also attached in the application to join the Alliance. Only $3 per student ($1,500 maximum per school) brings you a year’s worth of resources from North Carolina’s first and only fulltime charter school advocate. Join today and in time to enjoy substantial discounts on the summer conference fees!
We have selected our website designer, o3strategies of Raleigh. Brian Onorio’s group will also be a Silver sponsor for our July conference! We hope to have this site up in three weeks.
It is in the nature of markets that some succeed, some are middling, and others fail.
Similarly, public charter schools must compete for survival.
From the Wall Street Journal, “To identify the effects of a charter education, a wide variety of studies have been conducted. The best studies are randomized experiments, the gold standard in both medical and educational research. Stanford University’s Caroline Hoxby and Harvard University’s Thomas Kane have conducted randomized experiments that compare students who win a charter lottery with those who applied but were not given a seat. Winners and losers can be assumed to be equally motivated because they both tried to go to a charter school. Ms. Hoxby and Mr. Kane have found that lottery winners subsequently scored considerably higher on math and reading tests than did applicants who remained in district schools.”
On March 5 Raleigh Charter High School students competed and showcased their work at the North Carolina State We the People Competition in Raleigh. Dr. Thomas Humble announced that Ms. Klein’s Constitutional Issues class won first place, earning the right to represent North Carolina at the National Competition in Washington, D.C. from August 24-26. This is a class competition and all students contributed to the victory, demonstrating a deep understanding of American constitutionalism and the meaning of American citizenship.
The Alliance’s new office telephone number is 919-900-8951.
Spring starts tomorrow in the Northern Hemisphere. That would be us. See you in the springtime.
Eddie Goodall, President
512 St. Mary’s St., Ste. 110
Raleigh, North Carolina 27605
704-236-1234
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