by sachartermoms | Jul 17, 2012 | Latest News
Erin Carroll, a pre-K teacher at Highland Park Gifted & Talented Academy (a charter school), offers her perspective on Mayor Julian Castro’s Brainpower Initiative. She reports seeing big differences between kindergarteners who show up with pre-K experience...
by sachartermoms | Jul 16, 2012 | Latest News
Dallas ISD closed nine campuses at the end of the 2011-12 school year. “Dallas ISD says it won’t sell school buildings that were closed this month”, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 2012. The editors at the Dallas Morning News propose that high-performing...
by sachartermoms | Jul 14, 2012 | Latest News
Education reform writer Richard Whitmire urges parents to tune out the noise and notice that both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney agree that we should be building more great charter schools. “Obama and Romney Right to Agree on Charters”,...
by sachartermoms | Jul 13, 2012 | Latest News
New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote about the “boy crisis.” What if Shakespeare’s Henry V were a rambunctious boy going to an American school today? But the big story here is cultural and moral. If schools want to re-engage Henry,...
by sachartermoms | Jul 12, 2012 | Latest News
A recent article in The Economist praises charter schools’ flexibility: Charter schools have been successful because they offer freedom to shape the school to the pupils, rather than the other way round. Schools can change the length of the school day, fire bad...
by sachartermoms | Jul 11, 2012 | Latest News
Time for even more rumors about the next Texas Education Commissioner. “Speculation rises about next Texas education commissioner”, Shirley Jinkins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 6, 2012. The latest short list: Rob Eissler, recently Texas State...
