It’s time for the Oakland Ed Week in Review! We’re back with our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, State, and Nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. Here’s what’s been going on: Here in…
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An Interview with Author and Charter School Founder, Dr. Elaine Ruiz López for her New Book, The Fight for Equity in the Bronx: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities One Scholar At A Time
Compounded over time, great teachers and excellent schools have the exponential power to undo the side effects of policies and politics that either only serve the few or subject the masses to inequities that can set families and communities back generations.
Open Charter School Seats (Week of 8/30!)
Spreadsheet of the Open Charter Schools for the week of August 30th.
2 Things You Need to Know about the “Charter Movement”
Everything you hear about charter schools is true. And everything you hear about charter schools is false. That’s what 20 plus years working with them has taught me. They send high numbers of low income kids to college, they pick and choose students, they are safer. They disproportionately suspend certain kids, they save taxpayers money,…
The Best NYC Charter School Story You Haven’t Heard
A predictable war of words has erupted around interpreting the latest set of NYC test scores. The charter sector has touted its successes, with Success Academy Charter Schools front and center, and the mayor has increasingly pushed back, critiquing the results, Success Academy itself, and broadly tarring the sector. Missed in the battle of the elephants…