13th of January 2016
7th of January 2016
Another charter-school bill is coming
*UPDATE* We've just received a copy of the bill – click here to read it. A bipartisan group of legislators is backing legislation that will allow Washington's public charter schools to stay open. The bill "makes a series of updates which include directing charter school funding to come from the state’s Opportunity Pathways Account, which contains […]
6th of January 2016
30th of October 2015
19th of October 2015
More on charter schools: The Los Angeles experience
The Washington State Charter Schools Commission met last week to "consider how it can keep monitoring the independent public schools while making plans to dismantle itself" (it also suspended applications for new charter schools). The commission finds itself in this strange position after the state Supreme Court, controversially, ruled in September that charter schools are unconstitutional. Some lawmakers are considering ways to counteract the ruling, […]
2nd of October 2015
InFocus: Possible charter schools ruling re-do, construction jobs, paid family leave study
This week we’re discussing the Attorney General’s request that the state Supreme Court reconsider its ruling that charter schools are unconstitutional, the number of construction jobs staying essentially flat statewide, and a federal grant for Washington to study the feasibility of paid family leave implementation. In this episode:
23rd of September 2015
18th of September 2015
15th of September 2015
Stanford study shows improved charter school performance – especially in urban areas
Even before the state Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional, charter schools were a topic that engendered heated debate (at least here in Washington; charter schools are perfectly constitutional in 41 other states). Therefore, data, backed up by solid research, provides a welcome relief from the rhetoric. For some years now the Center for Research on […]