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Not all charter schools succeeding
- 04-29-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
The Obama administration has touted charter schools as a key education reform, based on the phenomenal success some have scored in educating hard-to-teach students. But just like regular public schools, some charters — publicly funded schools that run independently of school boards and education codes — have washed up on the shoals amid rough seas. Locally, MACSA Academia Calmecac in San Jose and MACSA El Portal Leadership Academy in Gilroy lost their charters last year over financial irregularities. In perhaps the most embarrassing example, Stanford New Schools in East Palo Alto, a venture of the vaunted university's school of education, two weeks ago was denied a renewal by the Ravenswood City School District. (more...)
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