Monday, January 9, 2012
Charter schools State board approves charter schools
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:50 AM
The state Board of Education today has approved several applications for charter schools by school districts.
Those approved: 1) a conversion charter for an elementary school in Cross County that will provide "projects-based" learning aimed at rural students; 2) a conversion charter for a STEM school in the Lincoln District; 3) a conversion charter STEM school for middle grades in Osceola. The Board has another application pending from Warren. UPDATE: The Warren application for a conversion charter for K-3 also was approved.
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thats funny. We just had to pull our 7th grader from Lincoln's ACE online charter cause they read the charter wrong and wanted him to attend classes on campus for 20 hours aweek. we were notified 2 days before the school choice deadline for last year. How in the world did they get another charter???
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In face of the mounting evidence that most charter schools are NOT any better than public schools, how can the BoE justify adding even more profit schemes/scams?
The charter school infatuation is an experiment that has failed. End it now.
Folks, the conversion charters that were approved today are part of and supported by regular school districts. The applications came from within the traditional public school system.
If the 'evidence' exists that Charter Schools are no better than public schools how do they get them approved and why does the opposition lose the arguments when they are approved? If they are so ineffectual why do people demand them? Surely the influence of the AT is so significant and armed with effectual evidence that they are no better than public schools their repeated approvals would cease? This is illogical!
Yes, I am well aware of that but they are usually differentiated from public schools as a separate category as mentioned several times on this blog. My question still stands.
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