Category: Charter Schools
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When you think of school choice, what comes to mind? Vouchers? Charters? Intra- and Inter- district choice? Magnet schools? Today I received a forwarded email request from a senator that was gathering information in response to pressure for “school choice” bills at the Texas Legislature. I have been pondering “school choice,” and why it is…
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Choice=grow=good? is the reasoning of a top ten of “Fast Facts on School Choice” recently released by the House Education and the Workforce Committee (see list below). Let’s test their “moving in the right direction” logic. I choose to spend money=my credit card bill grows=good? I eat too many calories=I become overweight and my waist grows=good?…
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Originally posted on Crazy Crawfish: Recently we’ve seen a rash of publicity coming out of New Orleans and from Leslie Jacobs about the New Orleans turnaround miracle. According to her press releases and op-ed pieces in the Time Picayune and Baton Rouge Advocate, New Orleans leads the both the state and nation in graduation rate.…
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Today I will profile Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools on The Teat. The Teat is an ongoing series on Cloaking Inequity (the protuberance through which milk is drawn from an udder or breast) that seeks to trace financial support which various entities receive that are involved in current educational policy debates. The Teat Cow Haiku…
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Originally posted on Educate All Students, Support Public Education: Do Milwaukee’s children deserve art and music classes? By Barbara Miner Jan. 5, 2013 View from the Heartland MJS Blog Do young children deserve art and music classes? Or, instead of art and music, should kindergarten and first-graders spend two hours a day in Dilbert-like cubicles,…
Cloaking Inequity 
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