What is “school choice”? LEAD Academy is the perfect example
There is no better example of the disaster that unregulated, undefined "school choice" can bring than Montgomery's first charter school.
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Low test scores bring new scrutiny for Montgomery charter school
Test scores show LEAD Academy well below state averages in all areas, and failing to keep pace with Montgomery County schools.
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See recent postsInstead of fixing a school for military kids, how about just fixing the schools for all kids?
The education of police officers’ kids isn’t worth any extra effort. Same for the kids of nurses and firefighters. Ditto for the kids of preachers and social workers. No, in the eyes of the Republican-led Alabama Legislature, the children of this state get what they get and lawmakers aren’t going to go out of their … Continued
New report offers advice for fixing state’s charter school issues
Local school boards should have more authority in approving proposed charter schools and parents of students attending the charters should have a larger role on the schools’ governing boards. Those were two of the suggestions contained within a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which reviewed problems with Alabama’s charter school law and the … Continued
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See recent postsAlabama Charter School Commission finally did its job
Finally, the Alabama Charter School Commission is doing its job. On Monday, the Commission voted to revoke the charter for Woodland Prep, the beleaguered charter school in Washington County, and it took steps to force LEAD Academy, the steadily failing charter in Montgomery, to provide the Commission with necessary information to assure it is operating … Continued
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See recent postsNorth Carolina mother sheds light on Alabama Charter School mess
Editor’s note: Alyson Ford is a mother in the Charlotte, NC area. It wasn’t long after she enrolled one of her sons in a charter school that she began to feel something was amiss. Soon she was attending board meetings of the school and digging into financial records. What she found was disturbing and even … Continued
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See recent postsAn open letter to Senator Del Marsh
Senator: While you and I could not disagree much more on what we need to do to help Alabama schools and educators, I have never questioned that you are a successful politician and businessman. You could have tremendous impact on education in this state–if you would listen to real educators and teachers instead of latching … Continued
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See recent postsThe colossal charter mess in Montgomery
It is nigh impossible to figure out what is going on with charter schools in Montgomery. Whether it is by design, deception or a bushel of inaptitude, the situation is clearly defying sections of the charter law and thumbs its nose at what is legal and what is not. The charter law was passed in … Continued
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See recent postsThe most under-reported stories of 2019
With an abundance of news source and a never-ending stream of daily political news, there are inevitably a handful of stories — important, meaningful stories — that slip through the cracks and go under-reported and under-read. For whatever reason, these stories in 2019 didn’t go viral and weren’t a hot topic among your friends and … Continued