This post was published last year, and I'm republishing it in light of the Driud Hills Charter Cluster's second attempt at absconding nearly a half dozen DeKalb schools. Dr. Lutenbacher provides academic and personal experiences and reaches a convincing conclusion. If...
Latest Story According to the Foundation Center, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation are ranked 1, 13, and 38 respectively on the top 100 U.S. foundations by total giving. The total assets...
Latest Story There are some charter schools that are successful. They tend to exist on their own in districts scattered around the country. There are however, hundreds of charter schools that are not successful. They tend to exist in clusters in some of the nation's...
This "twitter debate" from Julian Vasquez Heilig's blog appeared in my inbox today. I am working on a post on charters and public schools based on an EPI study of the Rocketship Education charters in Milwaukee. This twitter debate is a perfect introduction to that...
Georgians should be aware that our state legislators are at it again under the Gold Dome changing key aspects of education in our state through the passage of House Bill 897. The partisan bill affects education in the state in many ways. The elected officials have...
Latest Story Maureen Downey announced from her Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog, Get Schooled, that the 5-4 vote by the DeKalb County Board of Education rejected the Druid Hills Charter Cluster (DHCC). The DHCC petitioned to create a cluster of seven schools with...
