Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public EducationPrinceton University Press, 30/07/2001 - 312 من الصفحات Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty of heat over charter schools and their implications, but, until now, not much light. This important new book supplies plenty of illumination. |
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... School, Mesa, AZ ... School of San Diego, CA) Profile: Karen J. Holden (Parent, Renaissance School, Douglas County, CO) Interview: Keith Grauman (Teacher, Guajome Park Academy, Vista, CA) Chapter 5. Trials by Fire Interview: Harry Fair (Board ...
... board members and state officials. Next (in chapter 3), we examine the theory of charter schools, the idea's origins, the education environment in which it has taken root, and some powerful parallels in other spheres of contemporary ...
... school seeks to secede from its local public system or, in a few jurisdictions, to convert from a tuition-charging private school to a tax-supported charter school. In those instances, the parents, staff, or board of an existing school ...
... school, but the operator remains legally responsible to the sponsor. The sponsor is ordinarily a state or local school board. In some states, public universities also have authority to issue charters, as do county school boards and city ...
... Board of Education was about opportunity. So is school choice. . . .”13 Though widespread complacency about schools remains, particularly among the suburban middle class, one would have to be comatose not to detect the mounting ardor ...