
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Welcomes the Maine Association for Public Charter Schools to Facebook. Show them some Charter love!
MACS is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization working to bring public charter schools to Maine. Email: macs@mainecharterschools.org Phone: 207-763-3576 Address: 199 Hatchet Mountain Road, Hope, Maine 04847
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Submitted by Press Room on November 9, 2009 - 9:49am According to the Washington Post, considerable obstacles still block the expansion of charter schooling in Virginia, but many are hopeful in the wake of Governor-elect Robert McDonnell’s win last week. ...

Submitted by Press Room on November 6, 2009 - 10:04am An editorial in South Carolina’s Charleston Post and Courier, praised U.S. ...

Submitted by Brooks Garber - Director, Federal Policy on November 5, 2009 - 4:21pm On November 4, President Obama and U.S. Department ofEducation Secretary Arne Duncan traveled to Madison, WI to speak on education reform and the Race to the Top Fund...

Submitted by Press Room on November 5, 2009 - 9:07am As reported by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other media outlets, President Obama used the first anniversary of his election to give a speech on education, at a charter school in Wisconsin...

Submitted by Anna Nicotera on November 5, 2009 - 6:09pm Marcus Winters’ new Manhattan Institute study is terrific win-win news, nicely complementing the recent NYC study by Caroline Hoxby: Not only do the NYC charter schools appear to produce large achievement gains for students who attend, b...

Submitted by Anna Nicotera - Director of Research and Evaluation on November 5, 2009 - 11:31am Marcus Winters’ new Manhattan Institute study is terrific win-win news, nicely complementing the recent NYC study by Caroline Hoxby: Not only do the NYC charter schools appear to produce large a...

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Our ad in the Wisconsin State Times and The Capital Times
Source: action.publiccharters.org

Submitted by Nelson Smith on November 4, 2009 - 9:55am Mike Bloomberg won in a surprising squeaker yesterday, making him the only officially-named Champion for Charters to win and assuring continuity at a critical time for the city’s growing charter community. But we did pretty well elsewhere. ...

Doug Hering
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-16322 -Colorado-Charter-Schools-Examiner~y2009 m11d2-Charter-school-lifecycles-Part-Fiv e--Decline--Oh-my-gosh-she-left-our-scho ol
Another in my organizational lifecycle series.

Doug Hering
http://charterinsights.blogspot.com/2009 /11/charter-school-facilities-what.html
Some cities, like Denver, allow charter schools to use their space at low cost. In our nation's capitol, they sell school facilities to build condos.

Submitted by Press Room on November 2, 2009 - 9:22am According to the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas State Board of Education is looking into investing a portion of the $22 billion Permanent School Fund in charter school facilities....















