While the Democrats in WASTATE have declared charter schools as heresy, the very troubled Rainier Beach High School is retasking itself as a part of the International Baccalaureate program, very much a charter school effort! Meanwhile, the leftish Seattle Education Blog disses the League of Educ[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Charter Schools’
First District Democrats Require Litmus Test on Charter Schools
Candidate Should Get Out and Stay Out, Democratic Official Says – No Room for Dissent on Charter Schools The Democrats’ 1st District Chair, Nicholas Carlson, has written a letter to Guy Palumbo, a candidate State Senate. Carson tells Palumbo that he can not run as a Democrat because P[...]
February 27th, 2012 - 7:24 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Unions vs Teacher: Who is the bad guy?
Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon a Wheel by Bill Lyne An Open Letter to Nick Hanauer Our friends over at Publicola have recently been hosting a rousing debate between big bucks Democrat Nick Hanauer and WEA President Mary Lindquist on teachers’ unions and K-12 schools. Here at the blog, we have a har[...]
September 23rd, 2011 - 9:29 am § in Misc.
Was the $5 Billion Worth It?
A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. from WSJ By JASON L. RILEY (Excerpts) ‘It’s hard to improve public education—that’s clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you’re picking stocks, you wouldn’t [...]
June 30th, 2011 - 5:52 pm § in Misc.
UW Study: Charter Schools Work in Denver, New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York.
from UW Today (excerpted) A new white paper from the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education finds a key role for charter schools. In their paper, authors Robin Lake – the center’s associate director – and Alex Hernandez pull from the experience of charter networks such a[...]
June 21st, 2011 - 4:19 pm § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Bellevue, Bellevue, Bellevue
The Bellevue Public Schools dominated the latest Newsweek ranking of top pubic high schools with several showing in the top 300 across the USA. NO OTHER SCHOOLS IN WA STATE RANKED AT THIS LEVEL![...]
the state has 440 high schools and only 88 certified physics teachers. We are not going to be able to get a certified physics teacher in every one of those other high schools. But what we can do through technology is bring in high quality physics content. We combine that with an effective teacher in the classroom to maximum student outcome
No money? No problem, a wave or wiggle of a magic mouse and the problem is solved! The Washington Post reports on the National Summit on Education Reform, an annual convention hosted by former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. Bush is not alone in this effort. The [...]
Jeb Bush style school reform
The salesman is not the 43rd president, George W. Bush, but the 43rd governor of Florida, his brother Jeb. At the core of the Jeb Bush agenda are ideas drawn from his Florida playbook: Give every public school a grade from A to F. Offer students vouchers to help pay for private school. Don’t l[...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 8:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
More on WGU: Will WA vote to lower standards of higher ed.?
The bill to make Western Governors University an official state university will probably pass. Johann Neem from United Faculty of Washington Blog. This blog has been against it for all the right reasons—that it denigrates the value and meaning of a college education, reducing college to a set of s[...]
Tuition Riots in England
This post began with a link to video of riots in England because the conservative government is raising tuition to near American levels. What I fear is that England is moving backward and we are moving forward, both toward the pre WWII system of Victorian England! “Thomas Jefferson was the pri[...]