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Direct linkUjifusa, Andrew – Education Week, 2012
On an Election Day filled with dozens of state races and ballot measures with big implications for the nation's public schools, state teachers' unions and charter school champions had plenty to cheer in the aftermath, even as tax measures that would help pay for schools suffered setbacks in some places. Union efforts were instrumental in…
Descriptors: Elections, Federal Government, State Government, Unions
Barshay, Jill – Education Week, 2011
Computer-based instruction in kindergarten classrooms can be controversial, but one Los Angeles charter school is showing promising results and plans to expand the hybrid approach. The school conducted an experiment with a teaching method called blended learning, in which students learn from computers as well as teachers. The kindergarten…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Charter Schools, Kindergarten, Young Children
Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2008
A company that runs one of the nation's largest networks of online schools recently decided to discontinue a program that arranged for high school teachers in the United States to send their students' English essays to India for evaluations by reviewers there. The existence of the program by Herndon, Virginia-based K12 Inc. is an example of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Electronic Publishing, Elementary Secondary Education, Confidentiality
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2005
It is not unusual to hear students at the Cesar Chavez Learning Center say that if they were not able to go to this kind of school, they would have given up on formal education a long time ago. Housed in a strip mall a mile and a half from the U.S.-Mexican border, the Chavez center allows students to attend school for a half day--morning or…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Learning Centers (Classroom), Charter Schools, Organizational Theories
Download full textEducation Week, 1995
Four articles from this special report examine the charter school movement and whether it has the staying power to change American schooling. The articles are: (1) "Declarations of Independence" (Mark Walsh), which discusses the Boston Renaissance and Marblehead charter schools in Massachusetts, among others; (2) "Laws of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2005
Paulden Elementary, a school serving about 75 students, was started in 2001 in a rural area some 30 miles north of Prescott, Arizona. An independent audit of the school in 2003 found several problems, including failure by the school to have fingerprint-clearance cards and criminal-history checks for some staff members, failure to abide by the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Court Litigation, State Boards of Education
