By Kari Harden Contributing Writer | Originally Published at Louisiana Weekly. October 28, 2013 Despite being the recipient of an $800,000 federal grant, John McDonogh Senior High School is having serious money problems. In April, Future is Now (FINS), the Charter Management Organization (CMO) running the school, [...]
Diane Ravitch joins Melissa Harris Perry. The two discuss Ravitch's latest book, The Reign of Error." The question is what might terrorize Americans most? The answer is anything but ambivalent. The problem is our citizens do not see what hits them directly in the face. Slowly and [...]
New Orleans School Performance Scores Reports and Revelations Failing Schools 2013 According to Bobby Jindal (compared to 62% in 2005) Originally Published at CrazyCrawfish. October 27, 2013 Some of you may have seen reports in the Picayune or from Leslie Jacob’s “Educate [...]
Joe Raymond/AP Photo By Julia Ryan | Originally Published at The Atlantic. October 18, 2013 A new book argues that public schools are actually academically superior. Sarah Theule Lubienski didn’t set out to compare public schools and private schools. A professor at the University of Illinois at [...]
Intellectually people may know that Charter Schools are not public, although many are identified as such. After all, as the National Alliance for Charter Schools ascribes "Charter schools are independent public schools", ostensibly being one while essentially being the other. Perhaps, a Charter can best be described [...]
Photograph; as a designated "welcoming school," Johnson School of Excellence on the West Side got upgrades to technology. But only 34 students out of 145 from shuttered Pope Elementary are enrolled at the school, according to CPS figures | WBEZ/Linda Lutton By Linda Lutton | Originally Published [...]
By: Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at POLITICO October 6, 2013 10:50 PM EDT Ever since the Obama administration filed suit to freeze Louisiana’s school voucher program, high-ranking Republicans have pummeled the president for trapping poor kids in failing public schools. The entire House leadership sent a letter [...]
Photograph; Students look for their classrooms on the opening day of instruction at the Westchester Secondary Charter school. (Los Angeles Times / September 3, 2013) By Diane Ravitch | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times October 1, 2013 Los Angeles has more charter schools than any [...]
By Stan Karp | Originally Published at Rethinking Schools. Fall 2013 | Illustration By Ethan Heitner Colleagues with a shared vision of teaching and learning. Freedom from central office bureaucracy. A welcoming school culture that reflected the lives of our students and families. Professional autonomy [...]
