Education

Panich52

(5,829 posts) Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:35 AM Feb 2015

Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants

PHILADELPHIA: Protesters from Youth United for Change and Action United disrupted a meeting of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to stop the approval of 34 new charter schools. In the end, only 5 new charters were approved, and though the 29 rejected applications can be appealed to a new state commission, the night was a victory for advocates of better oversight of the charter school industry.

Read more>
http://thenotebook.org/blog/158244/live-blog-src-vote-39-new-charter-school-applications

•

3 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP

I teach in the charter school is New Mexico.. chillfactor Feb 2015 #1

You know why that is right? TeacherB87 Feb 2015 #2

When I got charter/magnet school "rejects" back in class....they had no confidence in themselves. madfloridian Feb 2015 #3

chillfactor

(7,584 posts)

1. I teach in the charter school is New Mexico..

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Sat Feb 28, 2015, 02:32 AM

Feb 2015

I love them.....kids much more better behaved in charter schools then the public schools....public schools are 90% controlling behavior problems, 10% teaching....perhaps all states are not like this but were I live I will take charter schools over public schools any day...

TeacherB87

(249 posts)

2. You know why that is right?

Reply to chillfactor (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 28, 2015, 02:48 AM

Feb 2015

Because charter schools can accept and kick out whichever students they want. Unless you think kids that have behavior problems shouldn't get an education, I don't understand how charter schools can seem like a sustainable model for education. We need to find educational solutions in this country that help ALL of our kids. I didn't get into teaching to avoid difficulty. I got into teaching to face it head-on and deal with it. That's why I will ALWAYS choose public schools over charter schools.

madfloridian

(88,117 posts)

3. When I got charter/magnet school "rejects" back in class....they had no confidence in themselves.

Reply to TeacherB87 (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:39 AM

Feb 2015

We had a lot of ego-building to do. They no longer thought they were worthy.

Thanks for your post. It is so true. Charter schools send their "problems" back to the public schools and often the money does NOT follow the student back.

And these schools are funded by taxpayers but have few oversights.

Reply to this discussion