On average, the funding gap between charter schools and traditional schools is 22 percent, or $1,800 per pupil. The average charter school ends up with a total funding shortfall of nearly half a million dollars.
Source: Charter School Funding: Inequity’s Next Frontier
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L.A. Teacher Union Seeks to Organize Charter Faculties
United Teachers Los Angeles is looking to see how it can organize charter schools. "We have come to the realization that we need to look at organizing teachers at charter schools," UTLA President A.J. Duffy said. Caprice Young, leader of the California Charter Schools Association, said now that charters have proven academic records and satisfaction among teachers, "the leadership of the union is going to have to listen to its own membership…they're seeing their peers leaving LAUSD to go to charters and they're loving it."
Source: Los Angeles Daily News, (06/10/2007)
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Federal Funding Boosts Charter Movement in Maryland
Late last week, Maryland Schools Superintendent Nancy Grasmick announced that the state is slated to receive an $18.2 million federal grant for charter schools. Most of the grant money will help groups wanting to open new charter schools after the fall of 2008. About $900,000 of the three-year grant also could be used to provide training to the state's existing charter schools. Nine charters have been approved to open this fall. Another 15 groups have applications pending.
Source: Baltimore Sun, (06/09/2007)
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CA Charter Association Drops Lawsuit Against San Diego District
The California Charter Schools Association has dropped its lawsuit against the San Diego Unified School District. The association and two charter schools had sued the district in December 2005 over charters' rights to use district-owned buildings. A judge dismissed the suit last year, and the association has decided not to appeal. Both sides have agreed not to seek recovery of court costs from each other and have pledged to improve communication and work together on a variety of issues.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, (06/08/2007)
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Guide Seeks to Help New Orleans Families Navigate New Public School Options
A guide for families seeking to navigate the public school options in New Orleans was released last week. It is designed to empower parents who now have choices for educating their children. "It's the first step toward truly giving parents opportunity and creating a market of public school choice and competition," said Ben Kleban, who is opening New Orleans College Prep Academy, a new charter school. "The only way that works is if parents are really informed and have all the information at their fingertips to make that choice. We're not quite there yet." Sarah Usdin, founder of New Schools for New Orleans, said "the guide is very important because there was a void of information, and getting consistent, reliable information into the hands of the people who need it most as they're making decisions for their children is very important."
Source: The Times-Picayune, (06/07/2007)
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New York Organization Receives Funding for Charter School Merit Pay
The United States Department of Education has awarded a $10.5 million grant to the Center for Educational Innovation to create merit pay systems in 10 charter schools. The news of the federal grant was applauded by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, who has advocated for merit-based pay throughout the city school system. Harvey Newman, the head of the center's charter school efforts, said that peer review groups, including teachers and the principal at each school, would set the standards for receiving merit bonuses and would decide how much to award employees. "What we want to do is get everybody in it together," he said.
Source: New York Times (free registration required), (06/07/2007)
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