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Thursday, May 21, 2009 Comings & Goings: At KIPP Catalyst Jim O'Connor, founding school leader of KIPP Ascend Charter on the West Side, has been named executive director of student services for Elgin School District U46...... Monday, May 11, 2009 Seventh-Graders Create iPhone App Chicago Sun-Times More than $10,000 in cash and prizes was awarded to four high school entrepreneurs May 6 during the 4th Annual Citywide Business Plan Competition & Luncheon. The competition...showcased business plans from students representing ACE Technical Charter High School, Gwendolyn Brooks Academy, Chicago Vocational Career Academy and Global Visions Academy.... Monday, May 11, 2009 District 150 Eyeing Charter School Both charter and math-and-science oriented schools exist in Illinois and nationwide...The new school would hold about 300 students, and would be chartered through District 150. School officials say it would focus on math and science, and open to all students within the district based on a lottery system. Members of the district's Charter School Advisory Board say a new school would help improv... Sunday, May 10, 2009 Patrick Hardy: 'The need is here' Rockford Register Star Hardy, 36, is leading an effort to establish the Sigma Beta Leadership Charter School. The Chicago native hopes to open school doors in fall 2010. ...... Thursday, May 07, 2009 The Harlem Miracle NY Times – David Brooks Fryer and his colleague Will Dobbie have just finished a rigorous assessment of the charter schools operated by the Harlem Children's Zone. They compared students in these schools to students in New York City as a whole and to comparable students who entered the lottery to get into the Harlem Children's Zone schools, but weren't selected. They found tha... Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Why Charter Schools Matter HuffingtonPost.com Tom Vander Ark Barbara O'Brien is a persuasive advocate for kids. As a young corporate executive, she recruited me to visit with Governor Romer in 1992 to convince him that Colorado kids needed charter schools. There are now 141 charters schools in Colorado thanks in large part to (now Lt. Gov) Barbara O'Brien. National Charter School Week is an op... Monday, May 04, 2009 Chicago's Charter Schools Reflect Unmeasurable Success Chicago Sun Times Chicago charter grade school students are outscoring their traditional school peers in reading, math and science according to recent standardized tests. When it comes to high school graduation, 32 percent more charter public school students attend selective or very selective colleges than the CPS average. That means our students are graduating and this is an important fa... Monday, April 27, 2009 A move afoot to lift the charter cap... Illinois Policy Institute The Rockford Register-Star reports that Rockford school board member David Kelley--a good guy who I've met and had nice conversations about transparency and school choice--wants to see the arbitrary cap on charter schools in Illinois...... Friday, April 24, 2009 Stimulus Money May Fund Summer School, Teacher Pay AP ...Extra pay to reward excellence in teaching or to lure teachers and administrators into struggling schools. --New charter schools. --Closing failing schools and reopening them with new staff. --More technology for classrooms along with...... Friday, April 24, 2009 Charter Proposal to Be Reviewed Chicago Tribune For the second time in a year, a group is asking Joliet Thursday, April 23, 2009 Charter Schools Face High Demand, but Few Seats Wall Street Journal - USA Mr. Duncan points to the Chicago Public Schools, which he ran before taking his job in the administration. There, about 73% of charter school seniors ...... Monday, April 20, 2009 Illinois Education Reform Chicago Tribune Raise the charter school cap. State law limits the number of charters to 60, although there are long waiting lists of kids wanting to enroll. This cap needs to be raised, and I believe we can accomplish this goal yet this legislative session. Raising the cap is one of the strongest signals we can send to Washington, D.C. that we mean business.... Friday, April 17, 2009 Arne to Illinois: Shape up Chicago Tribune "If things don't change in a very meaningful way, Illinois won't be among those eight or 10 or 15 states" that receive a share of the $5 billion. So what does Duncan want? He wants Illinois to lift its cap on charter schools. State law says there can be no more than 60 charter schools in the state, but there is demand for more than that..."Great charte... Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Arne Duncan: Education Secretary Warns Illinois of Actions Needed... Chicago Tribune Duncan said funding inequity, a limit on the number of charter schools, marginal efforts to police teacher quality and other old-school ways put the state ...... Monday, April 06, 2009 Charter schools earn A+ in progress Columbia Chronicle Parents, teachers and community members have strongly argued against Chicago Public Schools' Renaissance 2010 initiative. Their arguments are varied and motivated to do what's best for the children. The recently released performance report by CPS, however, indicates Renaissance 2010 schools not only have positive increasing progress but also exceed results of distric...
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