National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Submitted by Nelson Smith on November 25, 2009 - 5:05pm Tough and timely speech from NYC’s mayor at the Center for American Progress this morning, laying out a 7-point strategy to position NY State for a Race to the Top grant. ...

Submitted by Press Room on November 25, 2009 - 9:11am A Wall Street Journal op-ed by Harold E. Ford, Jr., Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., and Eli Broad urges the Obama administration to hold fast to its high standards for school reform in the ‘Race to the Top’ competition. In...

Submitted by Press Room on November 24, 2009 - 9:20am According to the Montgomery Advertiser and WAFF, the push to bring charter schools to Alabama continues. ...

Submitted by Press Room on November 23, 2009 - 9:22am An opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel by Sarah Granofsky, the program director for the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association, argues that to be successful, Wisconsin charter schools need autonomy from school district policies...

Submitted by Nelson Smith on November 23, 2009 - 10:35am The superintendent in Rochester, NY says he wants to “choose five schools and give them as much autonomy as possible, in terms of having control over how monies are spent and how faculty are selected,” in order to replicate the suc...

Submitted by Press Room on November 20, 2009 - 9:38am According to the Los Angeles Times and ABC 7, the College-Ready Promise, a coalition of five Los Angeles charter school organizations, has won a $60 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop a new teacher evaluation system, based...

Submitted by Press Room on November 19, 2009 - 9:36am According to the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick spoke at Excel Academy Charter School after the legislature failed to pass a charter school expansion bill before the end of session. ...

Submitted by Nelson Smith on November 19, 2009 - 11:21am We always experience some cognitive dissonance when talking about NAEP results for charter schools, brought on once again by Diane Ravitch’s latest post in Ed Week. read more

Submitted by Press Room on November 18, 2009 - 9:40am According to the Boston Globe and the Republican, the Massachusetts Senate last night passed an education reform bill which would double the number of charter school seats that can be created in the lowest-performing districts...

Submitted by Press Room on November 17, 2009 - 9:40am According to the Boston Globe, the Massachusetts Senate has delayed a vote on legislation which would expand charter schools, leaving just one day for the House Ways and Means Committee to consider the bill, for House members to file...

Submitted by Press Room on November 16, 2009 - 9:03am A Washington Post editorial praises the D.C. government for turning a closed city elementary school building into a charter school incubator, the third such incubator Mayor Adrian Fenty has agreed to locate in former city schools...

Submitted by Press Room on November 13, 2009 - 9:42am A Washington Post editorial praises U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan for prodding states to take important steps in school reform “even before firing the gun in his race:” In...

Final Race to the Top guidelines are out. At 775 pages the full document is mammoth, and we’ll have more to say after a line-by-line reading. But the major points look pretty good for reformers in g...