History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Charter School Lessons
- 07-02-2010
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By UCLA IDEA Staff
Charter schools have emerged as a great education hope for the 21st century. It’s easy to be outraged by low performance in traditional schools and imagine how charters can solve many serious problems. Charters emerged as laboratory sites where educators could carefully test innovative learning and teaching strategies that might then be useful in the more general public school environment. To accomplish this mission charters were relieved of many of the regulations and benchmarks that applied to the non-chartered schools in the system. However, this original mission is being expanded into a model for transforming the ways public schools are organized. (more...)
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