New York City has a strong charter school movement, and it showed in 2013 math and English Language Arts (ELA) testing. The graph below, taken from a New York City report, shows that students in the city’s charter schools outperformed students in similar (peer) schools in the city. But, in math, the Big Apple’s charters…
Louisville Citizen’s Concerns About Public Education This is the sixth video in the Bluegrass Institute’s School Choice Week collection. In this video, Pastor Jerry Stephenson from Louisville provides a short discussion of the problems he sees with the public school system in Kentucky’s largest city and what he would like to see happen to remedy…
Why Good Charter School Laws Are Critical As discussions about enacting a charter school law in Kentucky, we continue our video messages for national school choice week with more about why good charter school laws are critical.
Criticisms of Charter Schools in Ohio It’s national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we are featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. It is important to understand that not all state charter school programs, and the laws that create them, are created…
This CN|2 report says Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday is in favor of charter schools for Kentucky. Holliday knows there are now outstanding examples of charter school successes. CN|2 quotes Holliday asking: “What are these outstanding charter schools doing that we could bring to these districts of innovation in Kentucky?” That is a great…
Choice, Accountability and Flexibility in Charter Schools It’s national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we are featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. This is our third video in the series, and it discusses how charter schools offer expanded school choices for…
Charter School Types Vary It’s national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we are featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. Our first blog for the week released yesterday and dealt with some general questions about what charter schools actually are. In today’s…
Today kicks off the national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we will be featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. Of course, our biggest choice issue in the Bluegrass State is that we have just about the worst school choice programs of…
A relatively new group, StudentsFirst, has some on-target goals for public education. They say: “We are on a mission to transform public schools and equip every child with the skills and inspiration necessary to achieve their life’s dreams. We are driven by the belief that every child—regardless of background—has the capacity to learn if put…
No kidding! A USA Today column on January 1, 2014 says New York City’s new mayor should wake up to the DRAMATIC performance in the city’s many charter schools. What kinds of performance? Here are a few extracts from the column: • Stanford’s Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) revealed that in just one…