A call for reform: Legislators and local school officials are calling for better oversight of private schools that get millions of dollars from the state’s three scholarship programs. A series in the Orlando Sentinel last week detailed how some of those schools hired uncertified teachers with criminal backgrounds and submitted[Read More…]
Tag: Black Alliance for Educational Options
NAACP board approves anti-charter school resolution
Despite a full-court press from charter school supporters, the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People approved a resolution on Saturday that calls for halting the growth of charters. The move reaffirms the civil rights organization’s longstanding positions, spelled out in a 2014 resolution decrying “privatization” in[Read More…]
Charter school backers will weigh in before NAACP board vote
Late last month, a host of charter school supporters — from former U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige to school choice luminary Howard Fuller — wrote the NAACP asking to meet with its board before Saturday’s expected vote on a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter schools. That meeting never happened. Still,[Read More…]
Groups push charter schools on discipline for special needs students
Charter schools should revamp their discipline practices to create better learning environments for “ALL students” — especially children with special needs, a range of education and civil rights advocates said today in a joint statement. The groups, which include the main national charter school association, the association of charter school authorizers, the Black Alliance for Educational[Read More…]
Big changes coming at BAEO
The country’s leading black-led education reform organization could be in for some major changes after 2016. The Black Alliance for Educational Options announced changes were coming in a letter to supporters on Friday, but provided few details on what the future would hold. Howard Fuller, the chairman emeritus of the organization,[Read More…]
Statewide testing ensures accountability, transparency for parents
Note: This is the first contribution to our series of guest posts on testing and choice. by Jacqueline Cooper We can’t help our children, especially Black children from low-income and working-class families, if we don’t know how well schools are serving them. This is especially true when it comes to[Read More…]
BAEO’s Ken Campell: Don’t be afraid to note hypocrisy of school choice critics
Ken Campbell, president of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, has advice for school choice supporters who may be frustrated by critics who distort the evidence and hew to tired arguments. Call ’em out. “We have to recognize and not be afraid to call out the level of hypocrisy that[Read More…]
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Howard Fuller: Don’t be knee-jerk about for-profits in school choice, ed reform
Count legendary school choice activist Howard Fuller among those who don’t have a problem with for-profit entities in education reform. At the Black Alliance for Educational Options symposium in Orlando on Thursday, Fuller, who is BAEO’s chair, told several hundred participants at a first-timers orientation that “you also need to[Read More…]