Tag: Great Hearts

• More than $1 billion for 56 Black charter graduates!?

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  March 25, 2021

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  Wisdom

  I think this table is very self explanatory. Feel free to spread widely. H/t to my source that passed this along. Stop saying these large charter chains are about Black students. Just stop. See also the post NEW: DOES THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NEED SEPARATE CHARTER SCHOOLS? Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this…

  

• Charter Op-Ed Misrepresents (Big Tree): My Response That They Won’t Print (Small Axe)

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  March 5, 2014

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  Charter Schools

  If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down, to cut you down! Bob Marley I submitted an Op-Ed two weeks ago to the San Antonio Express News (SAEN) and they have refused to print it. The SAEN has not given the cold shoulder to corporate charter proponents. They printed…

  

• “Diversity is Hard”: Will Charter Schools In Your Locale Choose Equity?

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  November 11, 2013

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  Charter Schools, Dropout, KIPP

  I am not of the ilk that charters are all bad news (See all of Cloaking Inequity’s post on charter schools here). As I have mentioned previously, I am a charter school parent, currently serve on a charter school board, and was an instructor at an Aspire charter school. I realize that I have prominent friends and…

  

• Great Hearts: Hey! The wealthy need segregated charters too!?

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  September 30, 2012

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  Charter Schools, School Finance

  I noted neither a critical or opposing view in the first MYSA article, but David Safier, an Arizona blogger, has plenty of information on Great Hearts, a charter seeking to open schools in San Antonio. Is Great Hearts banking on segregation in their charters? Thanks to Karen from Houston for sending along the info for…