Photograph; Schenk Elementary School fourth-grader Meadow Corfits solves a math problem on her classroom's chalkboard in this September 2013 file photo. By MATTHEW DeFOUR and MOLLY BECK | Originally Published at Wisconsin State Journal. January 28, 2014 Wisconsin’s lowest-performing public schools would be forced to close or [...]
We stand strong for the rights of all people; persons united are as a bundle of sticks, stronger when standing together. This is thought behind the effort to unionize Charter school Teachers and staff. To say this is wise may have been questioned. But the need cannot [...]
Photograph; Mayor Rahm Emanuel joins over 200 members of the faith-based community to discuss the importance of providing Chicago Public School students with a longer school day and year. Thursday, August 25, 2011 | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times By Becky Schlikerman And Dan Mihalopoulos | Originally Published at The [...]
Photograph; Students at a charter school in Washington, D.C., in 2012.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images By Amy B. Dean | Originally Published at Al Jazeera. January 13, 2014 Immigrant children deserve excellent schooling too Public schools have historically been key institutions in our nation of immigrants. [...]
Photograph; Sam Greene | Dispatch | The school on S. 6th Street is one of four Olympus schools shuttered. Felony theft, filth, and failure to meet payroll, and still, the public funds keep coming. A sponsorship is all you need and regardless of your record you too [...]
Padded Cells, Corruption, Lousy Instruction And Worse ResultsCharter schools are sold as an answer. With awful discipline and shocking scandals, many really cause new problems By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. January 10, 2014 | (Photograph Credit; RonTech2000 via iStock) Imagine your 5-year-old boy went [...]
Photograph; Sonia Wang, a founding member of the prospective Be the Change Charter School, said some local parents support the school's bid to open in Bridgeport. [Facebook/Be the Change] "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." It happens without a word. [...]
Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon -- BESE board member Lottie Beebe, left, talks with Ann .Burruss, a parent and Swamp BESE co-founder By Marsha Sills msills@theadvocate.com | Originally Published at The Advocate. January 03, 2014 LAFAYETTE — Two Lafayette Parish public-school parents, who fought last [...]
Students and community leaders have protested plans to open a new charter school across the street from Prosser High School, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be pushing ahead. |Lauren Fitzpatrick/Sun-Times Media By Ben Joravsky. | The Chicago Reader. December 31, 2013 Combatants in the great charter [...]
