As a result, over 90 percent of charter school teachers are pension plan participants.
So I asked Steven Martin what had changed since King became a charter school.
Let's take the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School right here in D.
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First thing that following Monday, I was in his office with the dead charter school application.
Instead, it's now a charter school, like more than half of the schools that have opened.
Some parents in the film do not know what exactly a charter school is.
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When demand for a charter school exceeds supply, the random drawing is required by law.
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In 1993, she and six others founded the New Heights charter school, in Stillwater.
It may be a science charter school, or it may be a language academy.
One of the schools profiled in Amy Waldman's article is the King Charter School, formerly King Elementary.
To my amazement, Gates knew deep details of the struggles and triumphs of this little charter school.
While the voucher movement has largely failed, the charter school movement has a great deal of momentum.
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In April 2006 state officials cleared the plan to form a KIPP charter school at McDonogh 15.
Take, for example, a scene from the film featuring a City Council hearing on charter school expansion.
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In 1993, Michigan passed a charter school law that was challenged by the teachers unions as unconstitutional.
But with an estimated 365, 000 children on charter school waiting lists, the demand far outpaces the supply.
No-one at the Delhi Charter School in rural north-east Louisiana realised the policy was wrong, said its chairman.
The news of the family tragedy also shook the children's school, the Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester.
The charter school movement was born out of a desire to creatively address the many obstacles teachers faced.
The charter school is now one of the top-scoring schools in the state and is nationally recognized.
Right now high-stakes testing and crude top-down thinking is hampering both the public schools and the charter school movement.
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The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education.
Yesterday, he was in Coral Springs, north of Fort Lauderdale, for a campaign event at a highly rated charter school.
The growing charter school movement is a heartening sign that America's parents will eventually win back control of our schools.
CDFIs lend to micro enterprises, small businesses and affordable housing groups and invest in charter school, and community health care facilities.
They would like to be able to choose a private school, a parochial school, a charter school, home-schooling for their children.
Now just because I started a charter school doesn't mean I think charter schools are necessarily better than other public schools.
Why, one might ask, would applicants for a new charter school cite so deeply problematic an example as their proposed institution?
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The difficulty of opening a charter school in Memphis suggests that even the distributional goals of government education are not being met.
In one new charter school, Larry spoke with some parents about how their expectations and their hopes have changed since the storm.
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