by sachartermoms | Mar 6, 2013 | Latest News
Stuff I learned at last night’s information session for BASIS San Antonio: They’ve hired an operations manager. She’s currently in Arizona doing training, and will relocate to San Antonio in late March. They’re doing the paperwork to buy the...
by sachartermoms | Mar 5, 2013 | Latest News
Learn more about high-quality, free public charter schools in San Antonio by attending an information session: March 19, 2013: IDEA Public Schools information session at 5:30 p.m. at IDEA Carver, 217 Robinson Pl., San Antonio, Texas 78202; complete schedule March 21,...
by sachartermoms | Mar 5, 2013 | Latest News
Last week, I wrote about a study that looked at dozens of KIPP middle schools and found the students were packing in months of extra learning each year. Earlier post; “New Report Finds KIPP Middle Schools Produce Significant Achievement Gains”, Mathematica...
by sachartermoms | Mar 4, 2013 | Latest News
UPDATE: This exhibit has now closed. Faithful readers know that my kids and I love dinosaurs. (Remember “Dinosaur Stampede” at the San Antonio Botanical Garden last year?) Well, now the Witte Museum has “Dinosaurs Unearthed: Bigger. Better. Feathered...
by sachartermoms | Mar 3, 2013 | Latest News
Have you heard about PicaPica Plaza? It’s a shopping, eating, and entertainment hub that opened last fall on the South Side. “Pica Pica Plaza is South San Antonio ‘retail entrepreneur’ incubator”, Tricia Lynn Silva, San Antonio Business Journal,...
by sachartermoms | Mar 2, 2013 | Latest News
One of the differences about open enrollment public charter schools: no school board elections. For a roundup of school board races in the San Antonio area, see “School board races outlined”, Maria Luisa Cesar, Francisco Vara-Orta & Lindsay Kastner,...
