Joannejacobs.com: Progress In Michigan michigan charter students are posting larger gains than the state average. No class my daughter takes in her charter high school is lower than an http://www.joannejacobs.com/mtarchives/015262.html
Extractions: http://www.joannejacobs.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/5892 While gratifying, I'd like to see these sorts of comparisons with the records of the kids previous to their attendance in charter school factored in. My suspicion is that far from "cherry-picking", the charters are more likely to get the kids the district-based schools are failing leaving the district-schools with the kids who have fewer, rather then more, problems. Posted by: allen at June 9, 2005 08:02 AM I don't know about other areas, but my daughter's charter high school admitted 164 of the kids in the area out of 800 plus applicants. Out of 12 kids from her grade school that applied, four got in. If that's not "cherry-picking", I don't know what is. There is no way to create a comparison in achievement for these kids based on previous records. There are two entirely different educational processes going on here. The old way is based on making sure the kids are average (as in a C average.) The Charter school is giving vastly greater opportunities and teaching to much higher standards. No class my daughter takes in her charter high school is lower than an Advanced Placement class in any local school. As for opportunities, my daughter just wrapped up her Junior year in high school has received her COLLEGE elective grades. She earned a B in Art and an A in Meteorology. That is from a California State College, not a Junior College. She received an A+ in her elective language, Japanese. And no, we're not Asian. She has a mix of A's and B's in her core high school classes. Those B's would be very easy A's in our local school system, if they even offered the classes.
Policy Brief Charter Schools Their mission, educational programs, pupil performance standards, curricula, michigan tests show charter schools lagging. Education Week on the Web. http://www.ael.org/rel/policy/charter.htm
Extractions: After five years, school choice is beginning to have visible effects in Michigans education system. Parents can choose among a wide variety of charter schools, school districts besides their own, and private schools, and they are taking advantage of these choices. Some school districts are losing substantial shares of their enrollment; others are trying to bolster their funding streams by wooing students from other districts or private schools. Some charter schools are thriving; others are struggling due to mismanagement or a lack of interest. Schools and school districts increasingly recognize that their financial healthand ultimately their survivaldepends on their ability to attract and retain students. The proliferation of billboards and radio spots advertising the virtues of specific schools and school districts reflects a new sense of urgency. How does the emerging market for schooling work in Michigan? We find little evidence of systemic improvement so far. Rather, we find that the interaction of local factors and statewide rules is producing a variable yet patterned set of effects in different parts of the state. In our view, the balance between positive and negative effects depends on the details of policy design. In essence, the rules matter. Harnessing market forces may be a useful strategy for improving public schools, if policymakers are careful to get the incentives right. Simply unleashing the market may do as much harm as good. A Competitive Environment
Dean.html Central michigan University authorizes more charter schools than any other by establishing strong standards for each of our charter schools and http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tcsrj/dean.html
Extractions: Journal Home Articles TCSRJ Guidelines Call for Papers ... Contact Information Dear Readers, I am very pleased to be writing a letter of welcome to you as readers as well as of congratulations to Drs. Diane Newby, Xiaoping Li, and Sheketa McKisick, initiators and editors of this first volume of The Charter Schools Resource Journal. At Central Michigan University we take the responsibility of preparing teachers very seriously, and we take with equal seriousness our role of providing continued professional development and graduate programming for teachers and educational leaders. Our history as a normal school and continued success in teacher preparation, when combined with our leadership in the area of Charter Schools combine to make The Charter Schools Resource Journal very important to us. Central Michigan University authorizes more charter schools than any other institution in the state of Michigan, overseeing a quarter of Michigan's 202 charter schools. CMU is actually the largest university charter sponsor in the country. We work to fulfill our role of authorization and oversight by establishing strong standards for each of our charter schools and consistently assessing their quality by measures of the continued academic success of their students. Taking as their goal that of recasting and reinventing education, CMU's charter schools have made strong academic gains over the past few years, according to a recent Standard and Poor's report. Many of these schools are located in problematic urban areas and are heavy in the kind of diversity of experience that Central Michigan University's teacher preparation program has identified as crucial for their teachers in preparation. The Standard and Poor's report shows that 40 percent of CMU-authorized charter schools outperformed their local districts on state tests this year, up from 25 percent last year. In addition, 70 percent of those schools saw Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) scores improve in half or more subject areas over the past year. Good oversight and good trend data indicate that CMU's charter schools have grown to meet the cutting edge requirements of education.
Chicago Tribune Religious Schools In Bid For Charters of several parents alleging that a michigan charter school was teachingcreationism, In Illinois, charter schools are given a fiveyear contract, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0507150147jul15,1,1785302.story?col
LOOKING FOR A BETTER EDUCATION: Unhappy Parents Go Back To DPS The charter school she chose, the Detroit Academy for Arts and Sciences, Dan Quisenberry, president of the michigan Association of Public school http://www.freep.com/news/education/charter-bar210e_20050510.htm
Extractions: FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER Rachel Burnside of Detroit heard about charter schools a few years ago and thought she had found a way to avoid enrolling her children in the troubled Detroit Public Schools. The charter school she chose, the Detroit Academy for Arts and Sciences, was run by Edison Inc., a national company that promised each family a home computer. That grabbed her attention. She was told her children would keep the same teachers as they progressed through the elementary grades. That sold her. But after two years at the school, founded by Little Rock Baptist Church in Detroit, Burnside's son was struggling to learn to read in first grade, and she felt the teachers weren't trying to help. So, last year, she and her husband enrolled their son and daughter in Erma Henderson International Institute, a traditional Detroit public school. "I was a victim," Burnside said of her charter school experience. "We never got the computer," and the principal and most of the teachers came and went, she said.
Extractions: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS QUESTION: What are charter schools? ANSWER: Charter schools, also known as public school academies, are public schools. They are nonreligious and are not part of a public school district. Each charter school has its own school board. The charter establishing each school is a contract that details the school's goals, methods of assessment and evaluation. Q: How did charter schools begin in Michigan?
Education Exchange, April 1998 A charter school is an autonomous entity that operates on the basis of a Luzier explained the development of the PTA s six national standards for parent http://www.educationpolicy.org/newsletter/EEApr98.htm
Extractions: Volume 2, Issue 4 April 1998 Focusing on Education Reforms at Your School, in Your State Legislature, and in Congress Choice Becoming an Option Through Charters Since the phenomenon began in 1991 in Minnesota, 29 states and the District of Columbia now have legislation permitting the formation of charter schools. A charter school is an autonomous entity that operates on the basis of a charter or contract between the individual or group (e.g., teachers, parents, others) which organizes the school and its sponsor (e.g., local school board, county or state board, university, or charter board). The charter specifies such items as the school's educational plan, specific educational outcomes and assessments, a school management plan, and other compliance requirements. Once granted a charter, a school begins to receive educational formula-driven funding (e.g., average per pupil cost, plus targeted funds).
Charter Schools A Ruse For Destroying Public Education? were overwhelmingly defeated in November in California and michigan. charter schools would have to meet or exceed the performance standards as those http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/nov_2000/char_sch.htm
Extractions: Lynn View Middle School, Kingsport, Tennessee "Charter Schools" A Ruse For Destroying Public Education? Virginia political/religious leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have vowed to destroy public education in America. Their tools for doing this are school vouchers and charter schools. While Virginia has approved charter schools, it's proponents are dismayed they have to follow the same standards, including the Virginia SOL, as the public schools. Their intention was never education, but the removal of science and history and substitution of religious myth. They also demand to use uncertified teachers and to be exempted from all civil rights laws including ADA regulations for the handi-capped. (religious institutions are already exempt.) Fortunately, vouchers were overwhelmingly defeated in November in California and Michigan. In fact, Washington County, Virginia has approved charter schools, but has had no takers because the fundamentalists didn't want to operate as schools. Now Tennessee has gotten into the act. But the almost 50% drop-out rate in the state has nothing to do with schools. It's family priorities. Here is the fundamentalist' agenda is in their words in 1995: Charter Schools Rejected in Sullivan County Tennessee Fights for Bible Classes Wise, Hawkins Counties Back School Prayer, Ignore Problems
Study Of Charter Schools Serving LEP Students: Literature Review In michigan, most charter schools are located in urban areas; on average, The standardsbased education reform movement is catalyzing change in http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/reports/charter/literature.html
Extractions: A Descriptive Study of Charter Schools Serving Limited English Proficient Students LITERATURE REVIEW This literature review sets the foundation for the study findings that follow. In specific, the following are described in light of recent research findings: the legal obligations of charter schools to ELLs; what is currently known about ELLs in charter schools; and the theoretical basis for this exploration of services being provided to ELLs. A charter school may be defined as a public school to which local and state regulations do not apply. Even though charter schools maintain this freedom, they are still held accountable for their students performance. If the goals of their charters are not met, then their charters are not renewed (NCSL, 2000). Only 31 of the 36 states that have passed charter school laws have actually established schools.
The State News - Www.statenews.com The report said charter school students improved more than their public school a national charter school management company with 22 schools in michigan. http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=9244
Mayor Peterson Approves Charters For Two New Schools and; whether the school s academic standards align with Indiana s standards . Five Mayorsponsored charter schools are currently in operation. http://www.indygov.org/eGov/Mayor/Education/Charter/PR/20040205a.htm
Extractions: INDIANAPOLIS Mayor Bart Peterson today selected Goodwill Education Initiatives, formed by Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, to receive charters for two new schools, bringing the total number of mayor-sponsored charter schools to eleven. Both schools will be located at the headquarters of Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Inc. at 1635 West Michigan Street. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Career Academy #1 (Indianapolis MET #1) and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Career Academy #2 (Indianapolis MET #2) will be two high schools serving ninth grade students in fall 2004. The schools will grow one grade each year to eventually serve students through 12th grade. The schools are based on a highly successful model developed by the Big Picture Company at four small high schools in Providence, R.I. The schools are committed to educate "one student at a time" in a small school setting. The MET design is centered on a personalized approach to learning, family involvement, and an integration of academic and applied learning both inside and outside the classroom.
Charter Schools. ERIC Digest charter schools are freed of many restrictive rules and regulations. in thesummer of 1997 to manage nine nonsectarian charter schools in michigan, http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-2/charter.htm
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management Eugene OR. Charter Schools. ERIC Digest, Number 118. In seven short years, the U.S. charter-school movement has produced about 800 schools in 29 states and the District of Columbia, enrolling over 100,000 students. Charter schools reflect their founders' varied philosophies, programs, and organizational structures, serve diverse student populations, and are committed to improving public education. Charter schools are freed of many restrictive rules and regulations. In return, these schools are expected to achieve educational outcomes within a certain period (usually three to five years) or have their charters revoked by sponsors (a local school board, state education agency, or university). WHAT EXPLAINS CHARTER SCHOOLS' GROWING POPULARITY? Some members of the public are dissatisfied with educational quality and school district bureaucracies (Jenkins and Dow 1996). Today's charter-school initiatives are rooted in the educational reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, from state mandates to improve instruction, to school-based management, school restructuring, and private/public-choice initiatives. Many people, President Clinton among them, see charter schools, with their emphasis on autonomy and accountability, as a workable political compromise and an alternative to vouchers. The charter approach uses market principles while insisting that schools be nonsectarian and democratic. For founders, starting a brand-new school is an exhausting, yet exhilarating experience that "stirs the creative and adaptive juices of everyone involved" (Ray Budde 1996).
Extractions: Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming School Name or District Give Us Your Feedback (Page 1 of 5) In many areas, charter schools give parents a wealth of alternatives to their neighborhood school. By GreatSchools.net Staff Charter schools are public schools that have flexibility in structuring academic programs, hiring teachers and carrying out other functions. The degree of freedom that charter schools have differs by state. Michigan offers over 250 charter schools, placing it near the top of the nation. Universities have been most involved in chartering schools thus far, but community colleges and school districts also play a role. While many charters have been successful, there has been controversy over mismanagement of charter schools by for-profit education companies.
Charter Schools IDEA Holding charter schools accountable for educating all students is a task for the and enforces its standards for accountability for charter schools, http://www.psrn.org/Charter Schools Accountability.html
Race Matters - Charter Schools Fall Short How can we consider charter schools to be an option for dealing with failing michigan State University who has written a book on charter schools. http://www.racematters.org/charterschoolsfallshort.htm
Extractions: new study commissioned by the Department of Education, which compares the achievement of students in charter schools with those attending traditional public schools in five states, has concluded that the charter schools were less likely to meet state performance standards. In Texas, for instance, the study found that 98 percent of public schools met state performance requirements two years ago, but that only 66 percent of the charter schools did. Even when adjusted for race and poverty, the study said, the charter schools fell short more frequently by a statistically significant amount. The study added new data to a highly politicized debate between charter school supporters, including senior Bush administration officials, and skeptics who question the performance of the publicly financed but privately managed schools. Deputy Education Secretary Eugene W. Hickok minimized the report's significance even as he released the results. But academics who have been critical of charter school performance called it an important contribution.
