Monthly Archive - February 2008

Yeah, the charter community is filled with celebrities.

Last year, Locke High in LA received a substantial amount of national attention because its staff voted to convert to a charter school. Reason TV has a great video about the process, check it out here.

PBS Nightly Business Report ran an interesting story on charters last night.

Alliance board member Fernando Zulueta makes a cameo. Some of the information is a bit outdated (there are over 4000 charters now, and closer to 10% of the schools have closed), but still interesting.

Check it out, here.

No, we are not talking about the 80’s classic Innerspace, and luckily charters are not required to shrink down and fly inside a human body here to find facilities space.

As of today, all 4 major Presidential Candidates have expressed strong support for public charter schools.

I’m sure glad to see that state charter associations are creating their own quality standards — because some authorizers are just asleep at the switch.

This story from Dallas just hands our critics a sword. Did anyone at the TEA bother to read the school’s audits?