Let's take the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School right here in D.
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When I became president, there was one independent, public charter school in all of America.
One of them, Fatih Kandil, was formerly the principal of the Chesapeake Science Point (CSP) Public Charter School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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Certainly, not Jesuit of New Orleans, a private high school and Edna Karr High School, a public charter school in the New Orleans area.
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The beauty of a public charter school lies in its great autonomy and self-determination -- this is what drew me to charter schools in the first place.
Robichaux, now 45 and a longtime Louisiana educator, had become the principal of KIPP Phillips Preparatory, a new public charter school that had opened for summer school in July 2005 in New Orleans' poverty-stricken Seventh Ward.
Parents like Tori Willis, a widow who moved her 17-year-old son, Asante Sandiford, from a traditional Boston public school to City on a Hill charter school three years ago, are drawn to the focus on college preparation and manners.
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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McCain told the crowd that if he becomes president, he will make sure parents are allowed to pick their children's schools -- whether a better public school, a private school or a charter school.
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Take your pick: public school, private school, home school, charter schools, technical schools, college preps, ROTC academies, magnet programs, all-male, all-female, even online-only schools.
The nation's public education system has the charter-school movement to keep it honest.
And if we wanted to continue to emphasize to the city, to the state, and to the world that public schools are essential, we need it to open up a charter school but run it just like we ran our public school.
Charter schools, part of the public school system but free from onerous union and bureaucratic rules, have proliferated.
Charter schools, part of the public school system but founded by parents and teachers and free from most education regulations, have shown how much better the same amount of money can be utilized.
Now just because I started a charter school doesn't mean I think charter schools are necessarily better than other public schools.
Mr. Bloomberg denounced groups seeking to prohibit charter schools from being located within existing public school buildings.
The latest idea, to be voted on in May, would create a student count, for the purpose of assigning classes, by taking the actual enrollment, and then adding the number of athletes who live outside their school district boundaries, or attend a public school outside their high school district boundary (for those students attending, say, a magnet or charter school outside their neighborhood).
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"They should have notified all the parents, " said Grisalda Tavarez, whose 10th-grade daughter transferred to Williamsburg Charter High School to escape violence in her previous public school.
The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education.
The Florida ruling could also undo that state's charter schools, even though they are part of the public school system.
Meanwhile, the public school system is being privatized through the widespread creation of charter schools, encouraged by President Obama's Race to the Top program, which, among other things, offers states federal funding if they eliminate obstacles to the creation of charter schools.
Letting charter schools exit the pension system leaves a smaller pool of public school systems to cover existing funding gaps.
In a move being watched nationally, Massachusetts has begun enlisting its best charter-school operators to help turn around several struggling traditional public schools.
In a particularly cringe-inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).
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Last year, the majority (61%) of public school students in Orleans Parish (counties in NOLA are called parishes) attended charter schools, which are now attracting some middle class families.
Now, in what some are calling a grand experiment, 31 of the 58 public schools that have reopened in New Orleans are operating as charter schools, freeing them from school board oversight and letting them set their own curriculums and hire and fire at will.
The development stunned and embarrassed charter school supporters, who had long seen unions as antithetical to the very idea of these independent public schools, which rarely employ union teachers.
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