by sachartermoms | Sep 23, 2012 | Latest News
The State Board of Education’s Committee on School Initiatives will conduct interviews with the current round (“Generation 17”) of charter school applicants in Austin in early November. Two applicants with plans to open in San Antonio, Great Hearts...
by sachartermoms | Sep 23, 2012 | Latest News
Huffington Post writer Judy Bolton-Fassman says she is usually skeptical about parenting books, but this one is different. “How Children Succeed: An Interview with Paul Tough”, Judy Bolton-Fasman, Huffington Post, September 21, 2012. Paul Tough, in How...
by sachartermoms | Sep 22, 2012 | Latest News
A recent blog post from the Texas Charter Schools Association notes that, besides being back-to-school time for our kids, it’s an important time for charter schools: a new legislative session will begin soon (in January 2013), and charter schools are involved in...
by sachartermoms | Sep 22, 2012 | Latest News
The opening date for two Northeast ISD elementary schools (Las Lomas and Vineyard Ranch) has been delayed again, this time until January 7. “New NEISD schools delayed again”, Lindsay Kastner, San Antonio Express-News, September 18, 2012. As noted earlier,...
by sachartermoms | Sep 20, 2012 | Latest News
A reader’s comment about my recent post, “It’s not because of skimming”, shows possible confusion about what we can learn from studies comparing students who entered the lottery and lost versus those who entered the lottery and won. I made a...
