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Last week, leaders of district and public charter schools in Cleveland, Ohio agreed to work together to provide opportunities for the city's children. "We're in this together," said Eric Gordon, chief academic officer for the Cleveland public schools. "We either go down together, or we reinforce things that work." Gordon appeared at a forum sponsored by the City Club of Cleveland with representatives of three of city’s top-performing public charter schools: Citizens' Academy, the Intergenerational School and the Entrepreneurship Preparatory Academy. The discussion may signal a new era of cooperation between the district and public charter school leaders. "This is about changing the conversation," said Cathy Whitehouse, co-founder and chief educator at the Intergenerational School, a public charter school that has received the state's top academic rating each of the last four years. "We'd like to teach other interested schools in the community or districts things we found that have worked." Public charter schools in Cleveland have spurred the district to try new strategies. Cleveland has established single-gender academies and other specialty schools to keep the district competitive in the education marketplace.
Source: Honolulu Advertiser
Date: 05/11/2008
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