41. Minnesota Web Directory: Education minnesota Association of charter schools minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Education minnesota Association of School Administrators http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/mn/mn-ed.html

Site Index Comments Metronet linking libraries Homepage About Metronet Grant Projects Just For Librarians ... Add a site Sections Arts Associations Business - B2B Services ... Web Design Minnesota Web Directory Education Categories State Government and Education University of Minnesota University of Minnesota, Twin Cities State Colleges and Universities ... Other State Government and Education Department of Education InforMNs (Minnesota K-12 Project) University of Minnesota University of Minnesota, Crookston University of Minnesota, Duluth University of Minnesota, Morris University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Academic Health Center Carlson School of Management Center for Farm Financial Management (U of MN) Offers demo version of software packages Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Charles Babbage Institute Continuing Medical Education Farm Safety and Health in Minnesota Resources and links from the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Minnesota's Extension Service Immigration History Research Center "An international resource on American immigration and ethnic history. It maintains archival and library collections, sponsors academic and public programs, and publishes bibliographic and scholarly works." Institute for Health Services Research School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

42. PPI: Ripples Of Innovation: Charter Schooling In Minnesota, The Nation's First C minnesota s charter school movement has experience, assets, minnesota s next generation of national leadership on charter schools and chartering can http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=110&subsecid=134&contentid=252555

43. Welcome To CATALYST: For Cleveland Schools In general, minnesota s policies have limited charter school growth to a slower pace than The minnesota charter School Resource Center provides free, http://www.catalyst-cleveland.org/05-05/0505story3.htm

The Charter Challenge State to put brakes on growth Experience, knowledge not required Minnesota law helped to pace growth Districts embrace charter option Cover Story May Minnesota law helped to pace growth by Stephanie Klupinski Of 41 states with charter school laws, only two — Minnesota and Ohio — allow nonprofit organizations to sponsor schools. In 1991, Minnesota passed the country's first charter law. It now has 104 schools with 17,000 students enrolled. A comparatively late bloomer, Ohio — which has almost a million more public school students than Minnesota — didn't pass a charter school law until 1997. But since then, charter schools have expanded rapidly. With 248 schools enrolling over 62,000 students, Ohio now ranks sixth in the country in the number of charter schools. In general, Minnesota's policies have limited charter school growth to a slower pace than Ohio's. The inclusion of different types of sponsors — the organizations that contract with schools — occurred more gradually in Minnesota. Additionally, caps on the number of schools that Minnesota allowed were much smaller and applied to all charters. In Ohio, caps so far have applied only to "start-up" schools, which are schools sponsored by entities other than local school districts.

44. CHARTER SCHOOLS By Gerald Bracey Indeed, University of minnesota charter advocate Joe Nathan titled his 1996 book charter schools are public, nonsectarian schools that do not have http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/cerai-00-26.htm

Charter Schools by Gerald Bracey Center for Education Research, Analysis, and Innovation School of Education University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 413 Milwaukee WI 53201 October 12, 2000 CERAI-00-26 An Education Policy Project Briefing Paper Charter Schools By Gerald Bracey, Ph.D. Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education.  The preface of this book provides an excellent summary of how and why charter school advocates hold out hope: charter The charter idea is not just about the creation of new, more accountable public schools or the conversion of existing public schools.  The charter idea also introduces fair, thoughtful competition into public education. Certain assumptions embedded in these paragraphs have proved troublesome.  The statement implies that people opening charter schools know how to run a school.  This has often not been the case. People often open a charter school because they have a vision of what education should be.  As has been found in several states, though, this vision needs to be accompanied by skills in fiscal and personnel management and the ability to deal with many different people.  It further assumes that charter schools are largely driven by idealism, whereas increasingly charter school operators are looking to make money.  It assumes that people running the charter schools, idealistic or not, will be willing It has now been nearly five years since the above hopes and reservations were expressed.  We can begin to evaluate the predictions made for charters in the light of a half dozen or so evaluations from California, Michigan and Arizona, the three most active charter states, and from Ohio, which has recently experienced a charter boom.  Such an evaluation can be undertaken in light of the qualities alleged, and those observed, in charter schools.

45. Service Learning: Charter Schools minnesota charter School Research Center http//www.hhh.umn. edu/centers/schoolchange/handbook/what.htm. The Resource Center helps increase student http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/quick_guides/charter_schools/

Resources Quick Guides Charter Schools (Search Tips) Download and Print (58K pdf) Source: RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO, May 2004 Many charter schools have been developed that include service-learning in their mission, as a primary instructional strategy to improve student performance (see City on a Hill Charter School in Boston - http://www.cityonahill.org/ Service-learning programs and charter schools both feature: Innovative and energetic teachers; Active collaboration among teachers, students and the community; Alternative approaches to assessment, such as portfolios and public display of work, to determine both individual student success as well as school success; A focus on increasing student achievement and satisfaction in school; and Involvement of community partners in the educational process through school-based activities. The following sources will provide you with more facts regarding the creation, administration, and success of charter schools across the nation as well as state specific information. Web Resources The Center for Education Reform http://www.edreform.com

46. Charter Schools Development Center The charter schools Development Center (CSDC) provides experienced and minnesota and Massachusetts schools, in contrast, may be strugglingin these areas http://www.cacharterschools.org/news_5_11_97.html

Home News and Charter Currents News Three State Charter School Reports Three state-level reports on charter schools have rolled off thepresses (and into my in-box) in the past few months. The threeinclude two state-sponsored evaluation reports from Minnesota andColorado and a third, privately funded, report from Massachusetts.Though each takes a different methodological approach and substantivefocus, some interesting common themes as well as differences areapparent. The findings should be of interest to both charter schoolresearchers and developers. Minnesota The first report, released in February, is the Interim Report ofthe Minnesota Charter Schools Evaluation commissioned by theMinnesota Department of Children, Family, and Learning (that'sMinnesota-speak for department of education). The report was preparedby the University of Minnesota's Center for Applied Research andEducational Improvement (CAREI). The report focuses largely on basicdescriptive information, school development, sponsor and communityrelations matters. Some of the major findings include the following: The schools are small (average 119 students), have low student:staff ratios, are spread across the state geographically, and many are located in non-traditional facilities.

47. Minnesota Parent Magazine Online - Features minnesota is the birthplace of the charter school movementthe statute While numbers are growing, there were 104 charter schools in minnesota with just http://www.mnparent.com/articles/2005/07/27/features/features01.txt

Reader Resources find a copy features parent pages ... camp Features Posted: 07/26/05 - 03:34:19 pm CDT Pass, Fail or Incomplete? By Michele St. Martin True or false: A charter school is a public school If you don't know the answer, you're not alone. "I think there's a lack of understanding of what a charter school is," says Eugene Piccolo, executive director of the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools. "I think a lot of people don't even understand that charter schools are public schools." What is a charter school? Are Minnesota charter schools succeeding? While there are some real success stories among those schools, there have also been a handful of very visible charter school failures. Even the experts are divided about how the schools are doing on the whole. "[They're doing] very well," the University of Minnesota's Center for School Change says on its Web site. But State Representative Jim Davnie (DFL-Minneapolis), who's a teacher and also sits on the Minnesota House Education Committee, charges, "Charter schools have never fulfilled their original promise to act as a laboratory for bold new initiatives, to be an independent research and development arm of public schools. School districts were supposed to be able to pick up the successful ideas and drop them in. We've never seen that laboratory." There have been serious and documented charges of financial and managerial mismanagement. Most recently, St. Paul's Col. Charles Young Military Academy closed abruptly in October 2004, as did Minneapolis' Chiron Charter School in February 2005. Closings like these concern Judy Schaubach, president of Education Minnesota, the union representing 70,000 teachers. "I worry about the kids who are stranded mid-year," she says. In other financial woes, in May of this year, St. Paul's Minnesota Business Academy asked the city to settle a loan for pennies on the dollar after twice deferring its repayment. Additionally, up to one-third of charter schools were late in submitting financial audit and board minute information in 1999 and 2000, according to a study by Minnesota House Minority Leader Matt Entenza.

48. Closing The Achievement Gap . Charter School FAQ | PBS The idea was further refined in minnesota where charter schools were developed In 1991 minnesota passed the first charter school law, with California http://www.pbs.org/closingtheachievementgap/faq.html

What is a charter school? Why are charter schools so popular? How do charter schools differ from traditional district public schools? Who can start a charter school? ... Back to top Proponents believe charter schools provide better opportunities for child-centered education and more educational choices for their children. Operators have the opportunity and the incentive to create schools that provide new and better services to students. And charters, bound by the high standards they have set for themselves, inspire the rest of the system to work harder and be more responsive to the needs of the children. Back to top Charter schools operate from 3 basic principles: Accountability: Charter schools are held accountable for how well they educate children in a safe and responsible environment, not for compliance with district and state regulations. They are judged on how well they meet the student achievement goals established by their charter, and how well they manage the fiscal and operational responsibilities entrusted to them. Charter schools must operate lawfully and responsibly, with the highest regard for equity and excellence. If they fail to deliver, they are closed. Choice: Parents, teachers, community groups, organizations, or individuals interested in creating a additional educational opportunities for children can start charter schools. Local and state school boards, colleges and universities, and other community agencies can sponsor them. Students choose to attend, and teachers choose to teach at charter schools.

49. National Alliance For Public Charter Schools minnesota currently has 104 operating charter schools. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 60 of minnesota s charter schools are operational, http://www.charterschoolleadershipcouncil.org/ncsw/2005/mn.asp

Site Map Contact Us Board of Directors About Us ... Home NCSW 2005: MN Minnesota Submitted by Holly Peterson , Minnesota Association of Charter Schools The charter school movement in Minnesota continues to grow, increasing both the number and diversity of public school choice options for students and their families. Minnesota currently has 104 operating charter schools. Thirty-three additional schools are eligible to open as early as Fall 2005. Minnesota Department of Education school enrollment data shows that 17,554 students, or 2.2% of the state's public school population, enrolled in charter schools in Fall 2004. These numbers represent a 57.9% increase in enrollment since the 2001-2002 school year. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 60 of Minnesota's charter schools are operational, enrollments are more than 11 percent of all students in the public school system. Once all currently approved charters are operational, Education Evolving (Dec 04) maintains that the total charter "market share" of the Twin Cities will approach 15 percent. Minnesota continues to strengthen its charter law. The Minnesota Legislature has been expanding the number and variety of charter school sponsors in a thoughtful and intentional manner in recent years, resulting in more diverse sponsorship arrangements than in any other state. Current activity at the legislature includes the establishment of specialized non-profit sponsor authorizers. In addition, current legislative proposals include protecting and expanding facilities revenue use options, and advocating equal opportunity for charter school students to participate in extra-curricular activities.

50. St. Paul Pioneer Press 01/22/2005 Avoiding Troubled Charter minnesota has about 17000 students in 105 charter schools, 27 of which are in St. Paul. Six to nine more charter schools are approved to open in the St. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/columnists/citizen_watchdog/107052

51. School Choice - Private - Public - Homeschool Educational Choices In Minneapolis charter schools charter School in minnesota Information on minnesota as the first state to use charter schools. Minneapolis charter schools http://minneapolis.about.com/cs/education/a/aa080202a.htm

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52. Education/Evolving Vol. 1, No. 5 June 7, 2005 Jon Schroeder Education Evolving and the minnesota Association of charter schools (MACS) recently At the summit, more than a hundred minnesota charter school students http://www.educationevolving.org/eblast-5.html

Vol. 1, No. 5 June 7, 2005 Jon Schroeder, Editor IN THIS ISSUE: AVALON CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXAMINE PEERS’ ATTITUDES ABOUT WHAT MAKES A SCHOOL WORTH ATTENDING STUDENTS INFORM LEGISLATORS: WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT CHARTERED SCHOOLS AND WHAT MOTIVATES STUDENT LEARNING? WANTED: STUDENT PARTICIPATION TO INFLUENCE MINNESOTA EDUCATION UPDATES AND INSIGHTS SIGN UP AND ARCHIVES ... click here Real Impact Web site. The Web site includes three main sections: Student Input: Message Boards and Student Submissions Links to Other Sites With Student Voices AVALON CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXAMINE PEERS’ ATTITUDES ABOUT WHAT MAKES A SCHOOL WORTH ATTENDING Real Impact publication, student-researchers from Avalon Charter High School in St. Paul are challenging adult decision-makers to start allowing consumer/student input to be a driver in school and education redesign efforts; to use their modest beginnings to launch bigger, broader conversations about how to increase students’ motivation to attend school, learn, and graduate. After interviewing Twin Cities students, primarily from alternative and charter schools, and analyzing results, the student-researchers concluded:

53. Government Innovators Network: Charter School Law, 2005-05-18 10:05:11 Seven of ten charter schools in minnesota report a waiting list. In effect, minnesota s charter schools have become both an existing solution for http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/awards.html?id=3848

54. MPR: Charter School Competition Heats Up In Minneapolis Minneapolis school district officials are trying to slow the exodus of students to city charter schools. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/11/25_pugmiret_charter/

Skip over navigation MPR Home News Radio Listening ... Help Today: Friday, September 23, 2005 Twin Cities: Regional NEWS CATEGORIES NEWS HOME AGRICULTURE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT ... SOCIAL ISSUES SEARCH Enter relevant words or phrases. Visit the search help page to learn more. In the Spotlight Tools Sign up to receive e-mail newsletters Audio Charter school competition heats up in Minneapolis (story audio) The future of schools in Minneapolis (Midday 11/24/03) Photos David Jennings Patty Brostrom Joe Nathan Your Voice Join the conversation with other MPR listeners in the News Forum E-mail this page Print this page Charter school competition heats up in Minneapolis by Tim Pugmire , Minnesota Public Radio November 25, 2003 David Jennings, interim superintendent for Minneapolis Public Schools, says the district must respond better to the educational needs of the families choosing charter schools. (MPR Photo/Tim Pugmire) Minneapolis school district officials are trying to slow the exodus of students to city charter schools. A report issued last month quantified for the first time what district officials long suspected - that they're losing students to charter schools by the hundreds. The report prompted district leaders to begin addressing the charter school competition. But charter school advocates say the district is using test scores and legislative proposals to mount an unfair attack. Interim Superintendent David Jennings says the district could lose another 10,000 students over the next five years if the trend is allowed to continue.

55. Minnesota minnesota s charter school law has been amended three timesin 1997, 1999, minnesota Association of charter schools Steve Dess, Executive Director http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/Schools/minnesota.cfm

site map help contact us The Heritage Foundation ... School Choice 2003 Minnesota Policy Archive: view by date Policy Archive: view by issue ... Return Home MINNESOTA State Profile (Updated April 2004) School Choice Status Public school choice: Interdistrict/mandatory State constitution: Blaine amendment and compelled-support language Charter school law: Established 1991 Strength of law: Strong Number of charter schools in operation (fall 2002): Number of students enrolled in charter schools (fall 2002): Publicly funded private school choice: Yes Privately funded school choice: Yes Home-school law: High regulation Ranking on the Education Freedom Index (2001): 5th out of 50 states K-12 Public Schools and Students (2001-2002) Public school enrollment: 845,700 Students enrolled per teacher: 15.8 Number of schools (2000-2001): 2,105 Number of districts: 341 Current expenditures: $6,623,305,000 Current per-pupil expenditure: $7,832 Amount of revenue from the federal government: 4.9% K-12 Public School Teachers (2001-2002) Number of teachers: 53,450 Average salary: $43,330

56. NCEF Resource List: Charter School Facilities Financing And Design Issues (minnesota Association of charter schools; New Twin Cities charter School Project; Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Center for School Change; http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/financing_charter.cfm

CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES FINANCING AND DESIGN ISSUES NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles regarding public and private funding options for the lease, purchase, insuring, and repair of charter school buildings. Includes information on site selection, facilities design, and sharing space. Show all citations Show citations from 2000 to present Show citations from 2002 to present Show Abstracts Hide Abstracts References to Books and Other Media - 65 (1 new citation) References to Journal Articles Related Web Sites Related Resource Lists Charter School Funding: Inequity's Next Frontier. http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/Charter%20School%20Funding%202005%20FINAL.pdf (Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, Washington, DC , Aug 2005) Examines charter school funding in 16 states and the District of Columbia, determining that charter schools are significantly underfunded relative to district schools, funding discrepancies are even wider in most big urban school districts, the chief culprit is charter schools' lack of access to local and capital funding, and that quality data is often unavailable. Individual reports for each state are included, policy issues and implications are detailed, and the methodology of the study is described. 141p. The Charter School Facility Finance Landscape.

57. Maine Association For Charter Schools It took minnesota s charter schools 10 years to reach the 10000student A partnership between the minnesota Association of charter schools and the http://www.mainecharterschools.org/ReadingCorner.cfm

These contain information that we feel might be of interst to the public. If you would like to add to the readers corner please send your email to macs@mainecharterschools.org Title Loss of existing public school options Writers Email MACS recently received complaints from parents in two different towns, that their Superintendents plan to close exisiting optional programs for multi-age learning in their elementary schools. Ostensible reasons given include budgetary concerns and testing requirements for NCLB. Is it possibly just a lack of imagination? What if these successful programs were to become public charer schools? Title Minnesota expands charter schools Writers Email macs@mainecharterschools.org Charter schools open in record numbers BY JOHN WELSH ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 12/29/03 It took Minnesota's charter schools 10 years to reach the 10,000-student enrollment mark. But with rapidly expanding interest, charter schools may reach 20,000 students in half that time. For the second year in a row, the Minnesota Department of Education has approved a record number of charter school applications. Twenty schools were approved in this year's recently completed round of applications and could open next fall.

58. American Association Of School Administrators - Issues And Insights Arizona s privately run charter schools are entitled to more than $1 million a A major study of minnesota s Public School Choice Laws, conducted by Penn http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/choice/charter.htm

59. WEB RESOURCES ON CHARTER SCHOOLS In discussing charter schools, key resources found on the World Wide Web have been minnesota S charter schools http//www.cfl.state.mn.us/charter/ http://ccvi.wceruw.org/ccvi/pub/newsletter/Spring2000_CharterSch/7.htm

WEB RESOURCES ON CHARTER SCHOOLS [ mary chaffee ] SCHOOLS FEATURED IN THE LEAD ARTICLE FENTON AVENUE CHARTER SCHOOL [Found on the California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC.) web site.] http://www.canec.org/schools/2_30c.htm On the California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC) web site, you can find a copy of the Fenton Avenue Charter School's Charter Document. The Fenton Avenue Charter School is located in the northeast San Fernando Valley in the city of Lake View Terrace. FRANCIS W. PARKER CHARTER SCHOOL [Found on the Massachusetts Department of Education web site.] http://www.doe.mass.edu/cs.www/cs.parker.html A detailed profile of the Francis W. Parker Charter school, located in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, is found on the Massachusetts Department of Education web site in its Massachusetts Charter school Initiative section. KEY CHARTER SCHOOL WEB RESOURCES CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM http://www.edreform.com The Center for Education Reform (CER) is a nonprofit national advocacy group working to improve the nation's schools. The CER web site provides an enormous amount of information on charter schools which is updated frequently. From the home page, scroll down to the index provided to the CER Web site and click on "Charter Schools." "Charter Schools" opens with a section entitled "About Charter Schools." In sections which follow, links are provided to publications on charter schools in such areas as progress reports, legislation, books and guides, and news and analysis as well an invitation to participate in CER's interactive Education Forum.

60. Technology For Charter Schools Too: A Team-Based Training Model charter schools are a growing phenomenon in education. In September 2002, there were 79 charter schools in minnesota alone. Since becoming the first state http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4376.cfm

August 2005 Technology for Charter Schools Too: A Team-Based Training Model By Daniel Wendol and Tom King, Ph.D. April 2003 - Feature Last summer, 100 minnesota teachers, administrators and technology coordinators from 15 schools - 11 of which were charter schools - confirmed their commitment to improving technology integration in K-12 education by attending the Teams for Technology (T4T) training program. T4T, a Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF) grant project funded by Minnesota, was designed and implemented by vivED Corp. and the University of St. Thomas' School of Education to provide administrators and teachers with the tools and skills required to make systemwide technology integration possible. Dubbed "Teams for Technology," the intent was to create a new level of cooperation between school leaders and teachers by providing them with a better understanding of education technology and the specific challenges encountered by each group in the school community. Charter Schools' Growth Charter schools are a growing phenomenon in education. In September 2002, there were 79 charter schools in Minnesota alone. Since becoming the first state in the nation to authorize charter schools in 1991, Minnesota, like many other states, has experienced a steady growth in the number of requests to districts and the state for charter school authorization. Those wishing to start a charter school must obtain a sponsorship from a state-approved nonprofit organization (in Minnesota) or a district. An existing school board may also convert one or more of its institutions to charter school status if 60% of a school's teachers sign a petition approving conversion. Much work goes into these applications, although approval is not guaranteed.

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