Former state Sen. Gary Hart, who died last week at 78, authored bills allowing charter schools in California, creating a statewide student assessment and a minimum school year.
Despite progress against the scourge of COVID-19, New York City’s schools remain hobbled by policies that enhance neither safety nor student learning. A shining example is the edict that if two cases of COVID are reported in one week, a school closes for up to 10 days. While they can reopen if the cases are shown to be related, most stay closed for the full two weeks. Eliminating this rigid and arbitrary rule would signal that the mayor and his progressive allies care about kids.
Charter schools deserve equitable funding
Tatiana Epanchin and Amanda Gardener
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We are leaders at three Puget Sound charter public school networks. Charter schools are a type of public school that are non-profit, publicly funded, staffed by certified teachers, and held accountable to state and national standards. In exchange for higher levels of accountability, our schools have more flexibility than traditional public schools to take creative approaches, personalize learning, and give students from all backgrounds the chance to go to a great school that works for them.
Our schools are designed to disrupt cycles of poverty and injustice. They are free, open to all, and focus on serving limited-income families and Global Majority students (i.e., Black, Brown, Indigenous, and students of color). In fact, Washington’s charter school law prioritizes schools designed to expand opportunities for systemically underserved students, and our student demographics show that we are
assessment shifts last year and we are quite surprised that president-elect trump picked someone who actually is the most anti-public education person he could have picked in the united states of america. well, she would say that she is procharter school, proexperimenting and getting other ways of doing thing and not just relying on public schools. let me why not give her a shot, give her a shot with charter schools. let me be clear. one of my predecessors, al shanker actually coined the term charter schools. we run i run a charter school, a public charter school in new york city that has 100% graduation rate. this is not about charlotters. this is about betsy devos wh all due respect wants privatization of schools. that s her focus. and what has happened is when you look at these statistics, look at the statistics from michigan. michigan has defunded and destabilized its public schools. what we see in michigan is that