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News Junkies Roundup: Charter Schools, Pediatrician Rejection & Ronna Romney McDaniel
On the heels of a busy news week, Public Policy Consultant and former WDET News Director Chuck Wilbur and Detroit Free Press Columnist Nancy Kaffer drop by Det…
Should The State Have More Regulations Around Charter Schools?
A recent Education Trust-Midwest report on charter authorizers made waves in education-advocacy circles last week, with poor marks for many groups that oversee…
Report: Michigan doesn’t hold charter schools accountable
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A report from a nonprofit education organization says that Michigan charter schools and authorizers are lagging behind.The report,…
Charter authorizer report card gets mixed reviews
By Jennifer Dixon and Lori Higgins, The Detroit Free PressThe National Association of Charter School Authorizers called a new report that grades Michigan's aut…
Stateside for Thursday, February 19, 2015
A new Education Trust-Midwest report gives charter school authorizers low grades, but a gap in the state's charter school law may prevent them from being held …
Michigan Charter School Authorizers Finally Need to Be Held Accountable
By Valentina KorkesHaving spent a good chunk of my professional and personal life (much to the chagrin of my friends and family who, apparently, have interests…
Michigan’s Charter Authorizers Earn Mostly Average Grades in New Report
By Arianna ProtheroThe groups in Michigan that approve and oversee charter schools are now getting their performance graded.Education Trust-Midwest, a nonprofi…
The Case for Charter Accountability
By Amber Arellano, Executive DirectorWhen Michigan opened its first charter schools twenty years ago, policymakers and educators envisioned innovative, high-qu…
Group: Let state punish poor charter school authorizers
By David Jesse, Detroit Free PressThe state should formally sanction charter school authorizers that consistently do business with low-performing operators an…
New report gives mixed grades to Michigan charter school authorizers
By Kirk Pinho - Crain's Detroit BusinessA new report from a local nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization for the first time grades the performa…
Lots of A’s – plus D’s and F’s – on a report card for charter authorizers
TRACY SAMILTON - Michigan Radio News When Michigan's charter school experiment began 21 years ago, the hope was charters would be better than traditional …
Study says many Michigan charter authorizers succeeding but poor performers have more schools
By Kyle Feldscher | [email protected] - MLiveLANSING -- While most of the charter school authorizers studied by a Michigan-based education group received…
Why Grand Rapids Public Schools earned an ‘A’ from education advocacy group
By Monica Scott | [email protected] - Grand Rapids Press / MLiveGRAND RAPIDS, MI - Grand Rapids Public Schools is among six charter school authorizers that ear…
2014 Academic State Champs: Good school. Struggling school. All in the same district.
By Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Magazine & Monica Scott, MLiveGrand Rapids Public Schools officials are rightly proud of the success of the district’s Coit Creat…
Report: Virtual classes expanding but pass rates lag
Shawn D. Lewis, The Detroit News12:10 a.m. EST February 5, 2015The number of Michigan students learning through virtual classes is increasing, but performance …
Arellano: Celebrate quality charter schools
By Amber ArellanoThe fact that our state is struggling to provide Michigan children with a high-quality education is no secret. Today Michigan ranks 42nd in th…
Snyder: Detroit could be ‘template’ for education reform
By Ann Zaniewski and Lori Higgins, Detroit Free PressGov. Rick Snyder said Thursday that the education reforms expected to unfold in Detroit could serve as a t…
Reports: Michigan an outlier when it comes to charter school enrollment, accountability standards
Two reports out this week show Michigan as a stark outlier when it comes to charter schools.One, from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, shows th…
Charter School Growth In Michigan Brings Cautionary Tale On Quality
Charter School Growth In Michigan Brings Cautionary Tale On QualityBy Joy Resmovits [email protected] schools are the fastest-growing sec…