Charter schools beyond St. Louis urban core?

Charter schools beyond St. Louis urban core?

DC CHARTERS: QUICK TO EXPEL

In other words, not public and not a solution, since not committed to the education of all students.

From the Washington Post.

MISSOURI SCHOOL LEGISLATION

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2012/02/22/missouri-house-committee-adopts-education-package-bill/

BIG MONEY PROMOTES SCHOOL "CHOICE"

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/14137/proposals_could_bring_dramatic_changes_to_missouri_schools

CHARTERS: BUYING UP PUBLIC PROPERTY?

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/14053/charter_school_hits_bumpy_road_trying_to_buy_vacant_city_school_

FIREFIGHTERS BAIL OUT OF CITY SCHOOLS

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/11255/city_firefighters_sue_to_force_county_schools_to_accept_their_children

MISSOURI NCLB

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/22733/nclb_022112?coverpage=148

ST LOUIS' DILEMMA: THE HIGH SCHOOL QUESTION

A review of a book on the "Where'd you go to high school question," in the Post-Dispatch, and a humorous, insightful response, by the Riverfront Times

DIANE RAVITCH: SCHOOLS WE CAN ENVY

A review of: Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg, with a foreword by Andy Hargreaves Teachers College Press, 167 pp., $34.95 (paper) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/schools-we-can-envy/

Rhonda Broussard Immersion Schools | WUSTL Magazine | Washington University in St. Louis

Rhonda Broussard Immersion Schools | WUSTL Magazine | Washington University in St. Louis

Missouri NEA on New Charter Legislation

Missouri NEA Legislative Update
Week 6, No. 3, February 8, 2012

By Otto Fajen
MNEA Legislative Director


CHARTER SCHOOLS

The House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee approved a House Committee Subsititute (HCS) version of HB 1228 (Tishaura Jones) on February 8. The bill expands the authority for charter schools to cover the entire state, expands the list of entities allowed to sponsor charter schools, creates a statewide chartering commission and makes several changes designed to improve the accountability and transparency of charter sponsors and charter schools. The HCS version makes several technical changes in the language, but is substantially the same as the originally filed version of the bill in terms of both expansion of charter schools and sponsorship and accountability provisions.

The Association believes that charter schools need to meet the same standards of accountability, transparency and respect for the rights of students, parents and staff as apply to district-operated public schools. Currently, serious remedial action is needed to improve that accountability for sponsors and charter schools, and the state should adopt and implement those reforms and verify that they are working to ensure charter schools meet those standards before considering expansion of charter school territory or sponsorship. Accordingly, the Association opposes the bill and will seek to limit charter school legislation to correcting those deficiencies without concurrent expansion of either charter school geography or sponsorship.