History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Sac High turnaround can't be ignored
- 10-26-2009
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Editorial/Sacramento Bee
Closing a school and turning it over to a nonprofit to run as a public charter school is not for the faint of heart. It requires a strong school board willing to back an inevitably controversial decision. It requires a charter organization willing to withstand withering criticism in its sensitive startup years by those tethered to the status quo. But it is an option, one among many dramatic actions that school boards and communities can take to turn around their lowest-performing schools. On these pages over time, we're featuring a number of alternatives for turning around chronically underperforming schools. (more...)
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