Tag: KIPP
Florida schools roundup: A call for reform, teacher pay, KIPP and more
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…]
KIPP Miami in the works for Liberty City
A new “school of hope” could soon be coming to the cradle of Florida’s charter school movement. On Oct. 11, the Miami-Dade County School Board approved an item laying the groundwork for a collaboration with KIPP Miami. The plans would bring the nation’s largest nonprofit charter school network to Liberty[Read More…]
Charter school advocates rally around immigrant students
Daisy Romero Chavarria was taking finals at the University of Pennsylvania and found it increasingly hard to concentrate. She worried her parents would face deportation in Texas. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency were arresting undocumented immigrants in the state. Then, in May, Texas legislators passed a law allowing[Read More…]
For top charter school networks, it takes an ecosystem
When top charter school networks consider moving into new community, they don’t just look at funding or charter school laws. They look at the whole “educational ecosystem.” That was the message a KIPP representative brought to a Florida Senate panel looking at charter school legislation. Trisha Coad is the director[Read More…]
‘Everyone gets better:’ On cooperation between districts and charter schools
For its first hearing of the year, the Florida House’s Education Committee heard from leaders of several out-of-state charter school networks. The theme, according to Mike Bileca, R-Miami and chair of the committee, was “schools that have taken excellence and scaled.” Florida education officials have pushed for years to bring[Read More…]
Helping Florida charter schools enroll more disadvantaged students
Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano, a frequent charter school critic, published an even-handed column in this morning’s paper. He congratulated local charters for their performance in recent A-F grades, but questioned why they don’t serve as many disadvantaged students as district-run schools. Charters, which are publicly funded but privately run, have a much higher[Read More…]
Study finds Florida charter school benefits are more than test scores
Florida’s charter schools might not raise students’ reading and math scores a whole lot, on average, but attending one may increase a student’s chances of reaching college, or earning more money later in life, newly published research suggests. We first highlighted the working paper more than two years ago. An updated[Read More…]