Wisconsin Charter Schools Study - Index Welcome to the online home of the wisconsin Charter schools Study (WCSS). with the district, is the only alternative to traditional public schools. http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/wcss/
Extractions: Personnel Advisory Board Papers and Publications Data ... Links to Others W elcome to the online home of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Study (WCSS). The WCSS is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and headed by University of Wisconsin Madison professor John F. Witte in cooperation with faculty members and graduate students from the UW Department of Political Science , the School of Educational Administration , and the LaFollette School of Public Affairs A recent article (August 17, 2004) in the New York Times has created some stir over the academic performance of charter school students. In our estimation, the reporter must not have fully understood the AFT report on which she based her article. We believe that the article misrepresents both charter schools and the AFT's report. Further, the editorial board of the New York Times was incautious and reckless when interpreting the report's findings on the August 18th editorial page. The AFT's report does not show many statistically significant findings, nor does the report's text claim to. Instead, when one considers two major educational factors, race of students and their families' income, the AFT's simple tables report that public charter school students do not achieve differently than similar traditional public school students.
AERO Member Schools School Star, Seoul; Seoul alternative Learning Community Network, Seoul West Virginia. The Highland School, Highland. wisconsin http://www.educationrevolution.org/aero-member-schools.html
Extractions: Below is a listing of AERO member schools and organizations. They are part of the AERO international network of educational alternatives. These schools and organizations generally have in common a learner-centered approach to education. Members include K-12 schools, colleges, homeschool resource centers, and other organizations. Australia Australasian Association for Progressive and Alternative Education , Aranda, ACT Blacktown Youth College , Saint Marys, NSW The Booroobin Sudbury Democratic Centre of Learning , Booroobin, Sunshine Coast hinterland, Queensland Currambena Primary School and Preschool , Lane Cove, NSW Fitzroy Community School , North Fitzroy, Vic.
Wisconsin Legislation wisconsin just passed legislation on Charter schools in July 1993, teachers and the board provides alternative public school attendance arrangements for http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/pbriefs/93/93-2wi.htm
Extractions: Pathways home page Contents Previous section Next section Wisconsin just passed legislation on Charter Schools in July 1993, as the Governor had urged in his January 1993 address. This legislation authorizes a school board, on its own initiative or by a petition meeting certain conditions, to request approval from the state superintendent to establish one or more Charter Schools in the school district. A Charter School would be exempt from all laws governing public schools except the requirement to participate in the state's pupil assessment program and to be included in the school district's annual school performance report. The Charter Schools are allowed to be established in no more than ten school districts. The students enrolled in a Charter School also would be included in a school district's membership for state aid purposes. If a Charter School replaces a public school in whole or in part, the school must give preferences to any pupil residing within the attendance area of the former school. Charter Schools also must be nonsectarian in their programs, admissions policies, employment practices, and other operations. Charter Schools may not charge tuition, discriminate in admission, or deny participation in any program or activity on the basis of a person's sex, race, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation or physical, mental, emotional, or learning disability.
Dunbar Jr. - Alternative Schooling For African American Youth University of wisconsinMilwaukee. So-called alternative schools exist in the shadows of every large urban community. They are rarely mentioned in the http://www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq/br/dunbar.htm
Extractions: Alternative Schooling for African American Youth: Does Anyone Know We're Here? Christopher Dunbar Jr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. 152 pp. D IANE S. P OLLARD University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee So-called alternative schools exist in the shadows of every large urban community. They are rarely mentioned in the almost constant discussions and debates about public education, and they often seem to be below the radar screen of the general public. Indeed, unless one works in an alternative school or has a child attending one, most people probably do not even know that such institutions exist. Touted by some as places designed to meet the needs of children who have difficulty adjusting to regular schools, Dunbar vividly shows us that they are often dumping grounds for those difficult kids, usually African American males or other males of color, with whom no one wants to work. Through a series of observations, vignettes, and interviews, Dunbar takes readers inside an urban alternative middle school. As is typical of alternative schools, this one is small, with six classrooms and only 28 students. Shortly after it opened, Dunbar spent 18 months in the school as an observer. In this little book, he acquaints readers with the school, its students, and its staff. Dunbar focuses particularly on African American young males, described as the group "most at risk of both social and academic failure" (p. 22), arguing that this population of students is increasingly being consigned to alternative schools because they have "found it increasingly difficult to successfully matriculate through traditional public school" (p.22). Although Dunbar describes only one alternative school, he occasionally generalizes and discusses the problems and issues faced by young African American males in American society.
Wisconsin School Choice 2003 wisconsin. The Milwaukee plan offers this alternative to families whose incomes are at or below 175 percent of the federal poverty http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/Schools/wisconsin.cfm
Extractions: State Profile (Updated April 2004) School Choice Status Strength of law: Strong Number of charter schools in operation (fall 2002): Number of students enrolled in charter schools (fall 2002): K-12 Public Schools and Students (2001-2002) K-12 Public School Teachers (2001-2002) Number of teachers: 59,783 Average salary: $43,114
Information Center - Media The number of wisconsin schools and districts that failed to make enough progress to satisfy Many of them are small alternative and charter schools, http://www.smallschoolsworkshop.org/none091704jabdul.html
Extractions: Posted: Sept. 17, 2004 The number of Wisconsin schools and districts that failed to make enough progress to satisfy federal law rose, according to statistics released Friday, prompting renewed concern over whether schools can meet the increasingly tough standards of the "No Child Left Behind" era. According to state Department of Public Instruction figures, 123 schools ere on the list of schools that failed to make "adequate yearly progress" - a 12.7% increase over last year. The vast majority of them fell short of the mark in reading. The next biggest problem area was math. Some educators said the lack of progress in reading was misleading, though, because many students who fell behind are in special education programs and more likely have slower progress. The number of Wisconsin school districts that missed adequate yearly progress also grew - from 26 to 31 - or about 19%.
Children At Risk Program - Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau afterschool programs, and placement in alternative high schools. School district staff note that the majority of at-risk programs and services are http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lab/reports/05-4Highlights.htm
Extractions: to consider whether the program should be maintained, modified, or eliminated. The Children At Risk program, which is administered by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), is intended to reduce the number of students in grades 5 through 12 who are at risk of not graduating from high school. It was created in the 1985-87 Biennial Budget Act and, in response to recommendations from the Joint Legislative Council Special Committee on Children at Risk, was last modified in 1999 Wisconsin Act 123. Each year since fiscal year
Extractions: Welcome to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board's School Foodservice website. Browse through the site to find sources of real Wisconsin Cheese, recipes, cheese information, cheese training and education materials, WMMB program materials and more! Major School Milk Test Generates Double-Digit Sales Increases Wooed by flashy advertising and promotions, kids are now drinking three times more soda than milk. Not surprisingly, childhood obesity rates also have tripled in the last 20 years, and schools are leading the charge to provide healthier food and beverage options to students. New milk research suggests that simple marketing and product improvements can help students choose a healthier alternative at school, and increase milk consumption by up to 34 percent.
Alternative Schools | NW Education Students attending the nation s estimated 15000 alternative schools come in When researchers at the University of wisconsin looked at 14 schools with http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/summer_98/article2.html
Extractions: "T he ninth-grade student was a show stopper. Half of her head was shaved, and the other half was freaked out in a bold explosion of hair, bells, and ribbons. She had three gold studs in her nose and was wearing at least a dozen earrings that jingled like wind chimes when she moved. In her own distinctive way she was a beautiful young girl. I asked her why she had left her former high school to travel across town to a small alternative program. She thought for amoment then explained, 'At my other school everyone treated me like a geek; everybody thought I was kind of weird. Over here...it's like, I just disappeared into this really happy family..." Hope at Last for At-Risk Youth S tudents attending the nation's estimated 15,000 alternative schools come in all sorts of colorful packages. More than a few adopt hairstyles, wardrobes, street language, and attitudes that would make them stand outor be kicked outof mainstream classrooms. But what's most remarkable about this diverse student body isn't outward appearances. It's that these students, many of whom face obstacles ranging from poverty to teen pregnancy to long-term academic failure to chronic delinquency, are making an appearance in school at all. A growing body of research and years of anecdotal evidence show that students who have been labeled failures, troublemakers, or dropouts in traditional schools can thrive in smaller, more individualized settings. That may sound like plain common sense to any teacher who has worked to pull a struggling student back from the brink. It's especially timely news, however, as communities across the country wrestle with the staggering social and economic costs associated with undereducated youth. After years of operating on the margins of public education, alternative schools are getting a serious look from many different interest groups: proponents of school reform, corrections workers overwhelmed by juvenile caseloads, and employers concerned about finding enough educated young people to fill tomorrow's workplaces.
WDVA - Employment Assistance - Troops To Teachers Program wisconsin alternative Programs for Teachers (WAPT) are programs which employ Those willing to teach in schools with a high percentage of students from http://dva.state.wi.us/Emp_troopsteachers.asp
Extractions: Employment Links Troops to Teachers Program (TTT) TTT is a joint program of the U.S. Departments of Defense and Education that assists departing active duty military personnel, veterans and certain members/retirees who are associated with the reserve components, to transition to new careers as public school teachers. Teacher licensure/certification authority for the State of Wisconsin rests with the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Current DPI standards require all applicants for licensure/certification to have a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Actual employment decisions are made exclusively by school districts.
Racine, WI The Belle City Of The Lakes The Public schools of Racine, wisconsin the Belle City on the Lake. The REAL School (Racine s Educational alternative Learning Environment) maintains a http://racine.wi.net/schools.php3
Extractions: Named for Reverend Olympia Brown, the first American woman to be ordained and champion of woman's suffrage, this school is located on a 26-acre site on the shore of Lake Michigan. The campus contains a field house, theater, music rooms, art room and multimedia library. Computer labs, a science center, a green house, a nature trail, a prairie garden and a domestic domain are available for student learning to augment curriculum Stephen Bull Fine Arts Named for Stephen Bull, brother-in-law of Jerome I. Case and the first Vice-President of the J.I. Case Corporation. Fine Arts is an alternative education program established in 1975. First opened in 1914 as the Stephen Bull Elementary School, the facility has specialists in vocal and instrumental music, dance and movement education, visual arts, creative dramatics and library science. Case
Wisconsin/WI Charter Schools - Public School Review A directory of wisconsin/WI Charter schools by county high schools, middle schools, Clark Co alternative. 10. 5. Columbia. Lodi. Lodi Charter School http://www.publicschoolreview.com/state_charters/stateid/WI
Extractions: home search schools school agency rankings town / county rankings ... Home Wisconsin charter schools are listed below. County Town High School # Students 1. Barron Rice Lake Barron County Learning 2. Bayfield Drummond Ascend Academy 3. Brown Green Bay Denmark Empowerment 4. Clark Neillsville Clark Co Alternative 5. Columbia Lodi Lodi Charter School Columbia Portage Portage Academy Of 6. Dane Deerfield Deerfield Charter High Dane Madison Dane County Transition Dane Madison Dane Marshall The Fifth Dimension Dane Middleton Middleton Alternative High Dane Monona Monona Grove Alternative High Dane Sun Prairie Sun Prairie Alternative High 7. Door Sturgeon Bay Door County Charter 8. Dunn Colfax Academic Center Dunn Menomonie Lucas Charter School 9. Eau Claire Eau Claire Health Occupations Eau Claire Eau Claire Mckinley Charter Eau Claire Eau Claire Technology Charter 10. Fond Du Lac Waupun Waupun Alternative High 11. Forest Crandon Crandon Alternative Res 12. Grant Lancaster Lancaster Academy 13. Green Monroe Monroe Alternative Charter 14. Jefferson
Government Innovators Network: Topic: Alternative Schools Ethics camp arms teachers with classics; OC alternativeschool instructors learn to use literature Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (wisconsin) August 4, 2005 http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/topic.html?c=28
Government Innovators Network: News This page shows News related to alternative schools, sorted in order of Relevance. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (wisconsin) August 4, 2005 http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news.html?c=28
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Okay, you're going to have to follow the bouncing ball a little on this one. A lawsuit filed by the state teacher's union in Wisconsin is being eyed as a potential new wrinkle that could derail such schools before they even get up and running. Appleton School District recently opened the Wisconsin Connections Academy, an online charter school with a student body of about 300 kids from nearly 100 districts. Under current state open enrollment rules, the Appleton School District gets about $5,000 in state aid for each of these students, $3,000 or so of which goes to Wisconsin Connections Academy and Connections Academy (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sylvan Ventures), the provider of curriculum and services to the non-profit school. The rest of the monies pay for the union principal and six union teachers at the school. In theory, you'd think that WEAC would be glad that the group is hiring union workers, and also uses other 'bricks and mortar' type products, such as textbooks.
Wisconsin (WI) High Schools This is a list of high schools located in wisconsin (WI). Click below to see which particular classmates Elkhorn Walworth Co alternative High School http://static.namesdatabase.com/WI.html
Extractions: The Names Database at NamesDatabase.com lists over one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) distinct high schools in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. High schools from other countries are in the process of being listed. Members can register their high school information to reconnect and reunite with old friends and high school classmates. Members can also use other secure and private people search tools unrelated to high school classmates. This static content lets you preview which high schools are currently listed. To become a member, simply click on The Names Database link at the top of this page, and begin by entering your information on the sign up page. Your use of this Web site is subject to these
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