Charter Schools Development Center This website contains their detailed charter school information packet and other resources. www.cde.state.co.us/index_charter.htm. http://www.cacharterschools.org/resources_cga.html
Extractions: In California, charter schools are approved and overseen by school districts, county offices of education, and the State Board of Education. These charter-granting agencies have four primary responsibilities: Charter petition review Developing operational relationships Oversight and monitoring Renewal Toolkits designed for Charter-Granting Agencies To help charter-granting agencies with their challenging task, the Charter Schools Development Center has developed the Charter-Granting Agencies' Tool Kit with sample documents gathered from across the country to help charter-granting agencies with this challenging task. Section one contains resources on how to review charter petitions, including sample charters, suggested charter evaluation criteria, sample charter review process, sample financial plans and business plan criteria, and pre-operations school start-up check lists. Section two includes sample documents related to the operational relationships with charter schools in such areas as funding arrangements, special education, facilities and administrative services.
Extractions: March 2, 2000 Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education THE REVEREND FLOYD FLAKE: The timeliness of today's event is illustrated by yesterday's edition of the USA Today, which indicates that education in the United States is still not equal. It says that 40 years after the Supreme Court's decision on Brown v. Board of Education, public schools still fail to provide minorities the same quality of education that they provide to white students, according to a recently released report. As I introduce our speakers, it is important that we keep in mind that so many young people in our urban communities are not getting a proper education. When I first opened Charter Schools in Action, I turned to the index and saw a section that spoke of how charter schools could positively impact community development. After reading the book I cannot help but conclude that the authors' three years of work has been not only a yeoman's task, but also one that has been well worth the time and effort. The entire experience was certainly rewarding to those who trusted them enough to put money towards making this project become a reality. I've spoken with the authors at various occasions, and I have been with them in various parts of the country. I know them both to be extremely capable and gifted. Checker Finn is the John Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, as well as being the President of the Thomas Fordham Foundation. Bruno Manno is a Senior Fellow in Education of the Casey Foundation. The two have made some very important contributions to the national debate on school choice, and it is my pleasure and privilege to introduce Bruno Manno as our first speaker:
Impact Of Charter Schools Overview charter schools are especially important in the NCREL region, along with a list of some of the best Internet sites for charter school information. http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pbriefs/97/97-1over.htm
Extractions: An Overview Previous section Next section Contents Pathways ... home page by Nancy Fulford, NCREL Nancy Fulford is a program associate with NCREL's Evaluation and Policy Information Center (EPIC). She is the editor of NCREL's Policy Briefs and has been studying charter schools since 1991. Strong supporters of charter schools include parents who have been given the opportunity to choose schools that they hope will benefit their children in specific ways. Indeed, just the opportunity to choose and to be involved in the school in a meaningful way is very important to these parents (parent interviews, Spring 1997). But parent satisfaction does not necessarily mean that children are receiving a better education in charter schools.(A discussion of the impact or likely impact of charters on school reform is included later in this publication.) What do researchers say about charter schools? At this stage, there have not been a significant number of substantive research studies finding increased student performance in charter schools. However, the experts agree that charter schools are a force to be reckoned with and are not likely to go away soon (Howard Fuller interview, February 6, 1997). What Are Charter Schools?
Public School Search Arizona Montessori charter school Prescott Valley, www.arizonamontessori.com colorado River Union High school District, www.cruhsd.org http://www.ade.state.az.us/edd/leaurls.asp
Extractions: School Links List: Note: The URL addresses listed below are self-reported annually with the School Report Cards information. ADE does not validate this information nor guarantee its accuracy. If you do not see your school listed or it is listed incorrectly, please contact our Data Administrator with the correct url address and we will add or change it. School Name URL Address A Avenue Elementary School dusd.k12.az.us/aavenue A Avenue Elementary School www.dusd.k12.az.us/aavenue A Child's View School MTSHAW81@aol.com A. C. E. www.musd.org www.aaechighschools.com aaeci.org www.aaechighschools.com ... www.aaehighschools.com AAEC - SMCC Campus www.aaechighschools.com AAEC Mesa Community College Site aaechighschools.com AAEC Paradise Valley www.aaechighschools.com ABC Preschool cymart123@yahoo.com Abia Judd Elementary School www.prescottschools.com Abraham Lincoln Traditional School www.wesd.k12.as.us
Charter Districts Online Database Welcome to the ECS State Policies for charter schools Database! have enacted charter school laws, so this database only contains information for them. http://www.ecs.org/html/educationIssues/CharterSchools/CHDB_intro.asp
Extractions: Welcome to the ECS State Policies for Charter Schools Database! This database contains information about the state policies for charter schools in each state. From this database, you can generate profiles of the state policies for charter schools in individual states, create comparisons of specific types of state policies for charter schools across several states and view predetermined reports on state policies for charter schools. At the present time, 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted charter school laws, so this database only contains information for them. It does not contain any information for the 10 states that have not enacted charter school laws. Please contact us with questions or comments about the database.
Extractions: An Antidote for Consolidation? The charter school idea has helped several rural Colorado communities avoid unnecessary and ill-advised school consolidation. Rural school consolidation, a popular trend during America's industrial age that continues today, has left hundreds of rural Colorado communities without local educational autonomy. Although most rural towns in Colorado have their own historic one-room or two-room schoolhouses, for decades residents of these remote towns have been forced to send their children out of town to attend school, with bus rides as long as three or four hours per day. The schools their children attend are typically in larger rural towns that serve as the central consolidated school district headquarters for a large geographic area. In the past five years, however, seven remote Colorado communities with seldom heard names like Guffey, Marble, and Paradox have broken through the inequities of school consolidation. Using the Colorado Charter School Act, they gained the right to retain and operate their own local school as a charter.
Extractions: Legislative Update* Charter School Legislation. Charter schools are a growing phenomenon in American education. The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; the second, by California in 1992. By June 1998, 33 states and the District of Columbia had passed charter school legislation. (See Figures 1 and 2.) Four of these states (Idaho, Missouri, Virginia and Utah) passed charter school laws during the 1997-98 legislative session. Puerto Rico also has charter school legislation. The purpose of this legislative update is to provide information on the four states that enacted charter school laws during the 1998 legislative session, as well as to provide information on legislative changes occurring in other states with charter school legislation. The report updates information in A National Study of Charter Schools (1998), which provides details on charter school legislation passed through the 1997 legislative session.
The Fund For Colorado's Future colorados statutory framework for charter schools is one of the more For more information regarding charter capacity, please call 303860-0160. http://www.fund4colorado.org/pgm_smartSchool.html
Extractions: The Smart Schools Academies served seven self-selected teams from a range of urban and rural districts. This included the second largest district in the state, Denver, as well as Weldon County, which serves 180 students. The participating districts were: Denver Public Schools; Center Consolidated Schools; Lake County; Pueblo 70; Rocky Ford; Colorado Springs District 11; and Weldon Valley Schools. PROJECTS: Mobility Study Student mobility impacts everything in Colorado schools from accountability to classroom practices. So many of the participants in the Funds programs cited student mobility as a challenge to their success as educators that we sought out a way to target this problem. During 2003, The Fund for Colorados Future is conducting a study of this crucial issue with the Piton, Sturm and Rose Community Foundations.
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Extractions: CO, United States Hosted by Independence Institute's President Jon Caldara, Independent Thinking is the hottest current affairs show on Colorado television! Tune in every Friday night at 8:30 p.m. (or catch the repeat showing Sunday morning at 11:30) on KBDI Channel 12 (Channel 32 in Colorado Spring.) Videos of past shows available from II. Environmental policy studies research area
Gazette.com Call Barb Ingold, 4756120, for junior high school information, charter school CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN charter ACADEMY Grades Kindergarten-8 http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1309258&sec=2
Employment In Colorado Mountain Peaks Montessori is a Jefferson County Public charter school opening Fall Mountain Shadows Montessori school in Boulder, colorado, is accepting http://www.montessori-namta.org/NAMTA/ads/colorado.html
Coloradosprings.com / Attractions Call Barb Ingold, 4756120, for junior high school information, CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HIGH school 1200 Cresta Road colorado Springs, CO 80906 http://www.coloradosprings.com/education/fullstory.php?id=983
The David And Lucile Packard Foundation: Pueblo, Colorado Attachments that provide background information on your organization are also Public schools and charter schools seeking support should contact their http://www.packard.org/index.cgi?page=local-pueblo&aid=&id=&printer=printer
Extractions: Among the criticisms of charter schools is their potential to further stratify schools along ethnic and class lines. This study addressed whether Arizona charter schools are more ethnically segregated than traditional public schools. In 1996-97, Arizona had nearly one in four of all charter schools in the United States. The analysis involved a series of comparisons between the ethnic compositions of adjacent charter and public schools in Arizona's most populated region and its rural towns. This methodology differed from the approach of many evaluations of charter schools and ethnic stratification in that it incorporated the use of geographic maps to compare schools' ethnic make-ups. The ethnic compositions of 55 urban and 57 rural charter schools were inspected relative to their traditional public school neighbors.
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Welcome To The National Charter Schools Week 2002 Web Site Dave Camden, Director, Missouri charter Schools information Center colorado charter schools supporters also were able to attend charter Schools Night at http://www.charterfriends.org/csweek.html
Extractions: Charter school leaders and supporters all across the country are celebrating the success of the nations third annual National Charter Schools Week April 29-May 3, 2002. This annual salute to Americas 2400+ charter schools was co-sponsored by more than seventy-five grassroots charter support organizations in 45 states. For a complete list of sponsoring organizations and contacts in each state, click here For a state-by-state listing of
Charter Friends Report, June 1999 Leaders of eight charter school resource centers have launched a major national on accountability for Minnesota and colorado charter school leaders. http://www.charterfriends.org/rprtjun2.html
Extractions: Facilities initiative produces policy report, new resource guide for schools Public funding, private sector partner-ships and careful planning are all needed to meet the growing facilities needs of charter schools, according to two recent publications emerging from an initiative on facilities financing launched by the Charter Friends Network in mid-1998. The project is being directed by Bryan Hassel, a Charlotte (NC) education and public policy consultant. The first of the two Charter Friends reports "Paying for the Charter School House" reflects growing awareness that facilities financing for charter schools must be viewed as a state education policy issue.
99-1274 colorado Revised Statutes, and in identifying a charter school s charter as the (1) The charter school application shall be a proposed agreement and http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sl1999/sl.302.htm
Extractions: CHAPTER EDUCATION - PUBLIC SCHOOLS HOUSE BILL 99-1274 [Digest] BY REPRESENTATIVES King, Fairbank, Hefley, Lee, McKay, Alexander, Dean, Nunez, Paschall, and Scott; also SENATORS Andrews, Congrove, Evans, Lamborn, Musgrave, and Tebedo. AN ACT CONCERNING CHARTER SCHOOLS. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. Legislative declaration. The general assembly hereby clarifies its intent that, in empowering charter schools to enter into contracts pursuant to section 22-30.5-104, Colorado Revised Statutes, and in identifying a charter school's charter as the basis for a contract between the charter school and the local board of education, pursuant to section 22-30.5-105, Colorado Revised Statutes, such contracts are enforceable and the parties to such contracts may obtain such remedies for the violation of such contracts as are provided by law. SECTION 2. 22-30.5-106 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read: 22-30.5-106. Charter application - contents.
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