...business is a privately owned charter school. In south Florida were I currently live, charter schools a growing and very profitable. In Miami-Dade County Charter has become a trend. The District has approved over twenty schools in the last three years. I believe this trend is just getting started and has not peaked yet. This business is one of the Entrepreneurial trends stated by Kathleen Allen. “The leading trends at the time are women-and minority-owned businesses, social responsibility, the Internet and new media, and globalization” (Allen, pg. 19). This Charter school will specialize in Law Enforcement and have a unique advantage over other schools. The Miami-Dade Charter School trusts that the supporting of change relies on the formation of a learning community were everyone has something to learn and substance to teach. The mission of the school is to develop in all kids the love of learning, and aptitude to cherish family members, friends, and the ability to engage in critical thinking, and to demonstrate widespread mastery of the academic building blocks necessary for a successful future. Who are your customers? The proposed school would serve high school students (9th – 12th) grade. At the beginning of next month, a more formal negotiation process will began, and officials from the Miami-Dade Police Charter will began to explore the feasibility of opening the school at this location. At that...
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...Professionals program at Georgetown University last week. They are Explaining Charter School Effectiveness by Angrist, Pathak and Walters and Matching, Sorting and Wages by Lise, Meghir and Robin. The first one uses a reduced-form approach to study the treatment effect of charter school attendance while the second one develops a structural search-matching model to study optimal labor market policies. As will be discussed below, these two papers ask very different questions; and thus utilize very different empirical approaches, both well-suited for the purposes of each paper. In the Explaining Charter School Effectiveness paper, the authors ask the following questions: Do charter schools generate achievement gains? What are the causes of charter school treatment effect heterogeneity? They conduct a semi-parametric investigation of heterogeneous potential outcomes, and estimation of LATE gives mixed results for urban and non-urban charter schools. This charter school treatment effect heterogeneity is referred by the authors as “urban charter advantage”: urban charter schools boost student achievement while charter schools in other setting do not. Then they seek to isolate sources of charter effect heterogeneity through both student-level and school- ! Liu 2 level explanatory variables. On the student-level, student demographics explain some of the urban charter advantage because urban charters are most effective for non-whites and low-baseline achievers; in other words...
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...School Environment Stewart L. Hanska Strayer University Professor Marta Gierczyk Research and Writing-ENG215 17 October 2011 Abstract Where children live plays a pivotal role on how well a child receives an education. This paper will explain how and where children grow up and where their education finishes. School Environment According to U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics 340,000 young people dropped out of high school between October 2009 and October 2010. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 2.2 million freshman students (68.6% of all 2008 high school graduates) were enrolled in college as of October of that year. Children are afforded the opportunity to get a descent education no matter where they are from, where they grew up, or what economic class they live in but some don’t get to attend college. The environmental surroundings affect how well juveniles receive an education. Young people will be put under a lot of stress and pressure from school work and activities. These young people of this generation will be slowly replacing the older generation workers. Getting a good paying job, these young people will need A.S., A.A, B.S., MBA, and PhD degrees. Children can achieve these degrees by attending either public, private, parochial, magnet, or charter schools. Public schools are paid for by local, state, and federal government funds. With every year the country’s budget gets smaller and smaller due to economic problems...
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...2500 students per day and the only thing they can come up with as a solution is a Charter School. It’s been ten years since President Bush signed into law “No Child Left Behind”, but the law has done nothing to bring our children up to par when it comes to academic excellence. When will we stop blaming the teachers and their unions for the problems that our children face on a daily basis? Our politicians need to stop blowing smoke and make it happen because our government spends about $200 billion dollars a year to rescue our poverty stricken communities to accommodate worthlessness in the individuals who dropped the education ball and have taken up other means of support. Education versus Charter Schools is a topic that many parents and grandparents hear on a daily basis if they follow the news or has children in the public school system. It’s becoming harder and harder to determine the effectiveness of our public schools systems, because so many youth dropout before they can become eligible to graduate and receive their diplomas. There is a real war going on and it starts with our kids, they are the real victims of our failing school system. Public education was born in America in 1840 and was created to keep American people literate so they could read the bible and stay Biblically Literate (C.Bonastia,2012). In the beginning public education was a good thing known as Common Schools that were supported by the community, thus giving them control over what was to be...
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...In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court case that would end public school segregation. Over fifty years later, studies have shown segregation has increased in the public school system. Currently, public schools have seen an escalation in segregation according to a report released by Richard Rothstein of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (Strauss, 2013). Three additional reports related to public school segregation have also been released. This increase in segregation could have detrimental effects on the U.S. multiracial society’s success (Strauss, 2013). The study conducted by Richard Rothstein was conducted in 2012 and has now received both international and national media attention. Segregation is defined as “separation of racial or ethnic groups in order for the dominate group to maintain social distance” (Henslin, 2011). In this case the dominant group is white students. A dominate group is defined as “a group with power regardless of the numbers associated with the group” (Henslin, 2011). Segregation has been growing based on both race and poverty. “Fifteen percent of black students and fourteen percent of Latino students attend “apartheid schools” across the nation in which whites make up zero to one percent of the enrollment” (Strauss, 2013). Previous studies conducted in the 1970s have shown four out of five students in the U.S. were white. Now in particular areas (South and West) students of color are the predominate race...
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...5 Performance measurement Nonprofit organizations need to view revenue as a resource needed to achieve their missions. Obviously, revenues must exceed expenses over the long-term or an NPO will not survive. —Glenn Rowe Key Topics: balanced score card, customer feedback, competitive comparison, strategic objectives, blue ocean strategy W hat makes an organization “good” at what it does? Or, as Jim Collins (2001) would ask, “What makes an organization great?” Most would acknowledge that accountability, effectiveness, and achievement of desired performance outcomes are minimal requirements for any organization’s success. These requirements demand a measurement system relative to an organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic plan. This chapter discusses methods for establishing such systems. In doing so, we echo Worth’s (2012) concern that “nonprofit managers must be committed to performance measurement but should not become overly focused on it to the detriment of delivering their mission’s programs” (p. 157). Performance measurement Process Before engaging in performance measurement, it is vital to understand the level and scope of the process. Measurement can be conducted for effectiveness or performance at the program/project or organizational level. Effectiveness relates to achieving the mission, while performance is a broader concept that considers financial results and other variables related to the overall organization. Once the scope and level of...
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...The Geography of Los Angeles’ Public School System When discussing Los Angeles, most people think of its enormous wealth: Hollywood, movie stars, bikinis, Lamborghinis, and multi-million dollar homes. However, Los Angeles is a city of extremes, and the wealth is even more pronounced when compared to the city’s poverty. In all aspects of life, there is a disparity between the very rich and the very poor. This disparity is most apparent in our public schools. While some public schools in Los Angeles are exceptional and score highly on AP and SAT exams, others are far below California’s target API (Academic Performance Index) score. The quality of public education in certain areas of Los Angeles is, in part, due to specific geographic factors that create such extremes in LA’s public school system. While Los Angeles is a very unusual city, there are two easily identifiable Central Business Districts: Downtown and the Port of LA. Before the Industrial Revolution and fast land travel, the wealthiest and most important people in the city lived as close to the center as possible because it was the heart of business and commerce. After the Industrial Revolution, city centers became much less desirable to live in because of pollution and noise, and the most powerful people began to move towards the suburbs, away from the CBD’s. However, in Los Angeles these people did not move away in all directions; they moved west, towards the ocean and natural beauty. Conversely, the city’s poor...
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...A Case Study Comparison of Charter and Traditional Schools in New Orleans Recovery School District: Selection Criteria and Service Provision for Students with Disabilities By Copyright 2008 Nikki L. Wolf B.S., Northwest Missouri State University, 1985 Submitted to the Department of Special Education and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dissertation Committee: _____________________________ Chairperson _____________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Dissertation defended: April 28, 2008 3336479 Copyright 2008 by Wolf, Nikki L. All rights reserved 2008 3336479 The Dissertation Committee for Nikki L. Wolf certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: A Case Study Comparison of Charter and Traditional Schools in New Orleans Recovery School District: Selection Criteria and Service Provision for Students with Disabilities __________________________ Chairperson Date approved _________________ ii ABSTRACT In post-Katrina New Orleans, there is a growing concentration of charter schools. The Recovery School District (RSD) has oversight for the majority of these schools. To explore charges from community advocates that RSD charter schools restricted admission and provided inadequate services for students with disabilities...
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...Academy is a public charter school that serves students grades Pre K through 12TH. In the fall of 2007, College Academy first class to attend was a small class of sixth grade students. Over the years College Academy has seen tremendous growth in both student population and campus expansion. There are 4 campuses, one high school 8TH – 12TH and three elementary schools Pre K – 7TH. The student population is largely comprised of African American students who come from impoverished communities. Because of these factors, all students are provided with benefits including free breakfast, and lunch, free counseling services during school hours, after school enrichment, and tutorial are few of the many programs made affordable to the students and families of College Academy. College Academy objective is to ensure all students graduate and are prepared upon entering a rigorous 4- year college. Candace Boutte serves as the schools founding leader. The instructional and support staff members receive phenomenal professional development weekly and attend conferences locally and nationally. Ms. Boutte holds all staff accountable regardless of their job title. Essentially, the main objective is for students to be able to receive a world-class education at no cost. Boutee is characterized as being highly skilled and knowledgeable. Ms. Boutte has been recognized for her accomplishments in improving the schools test scores. College Academy out of the three in its charter, received the highest...
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... Charter Schools and Traditional public schools both have a profound effect on our students in many different ways but charter schools have much more of an effective way to get our Children not only through school but also through college. A large sum of students that have attended Charter schools have gone on to college receiving a 3.0 or higher. The Impact that education in Charter schools that have a college prep program is much more effective in student success than Public school education. Charter schools are publicly funded institutions that operate under their own standards of conduct and curriculum. Although these institutions are funded by tax dollars, charter schools are ultimately given the freedom to establish their own methods of operation, similar to how private schools are able to operate their instructional and social practices. Various studies and statistics reveals that students who come from lower-income families or students that are English language learners revealed higher success and performance rates in charter schools than in public school. According to the DC fiscal policy institute, the median proficiency level at the 43 charter schools studied rose from 44.2 to 50.2 percent from 2008 to 2012, while it fell from 40.4 to 36.7 percent at the 109 public schools. Charter schools serving low-income children are outperforming comparable traditional schools at many charter schools. Public schools are funded with tax...
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...Benefits for Children of Charter Schools? A charter school is a public school that is independently run. It is granted greater flexibility by the state government for its operations, but it needs to give greater accountability for the student’s performance than regular public schools give. The charter is basically a performance contract that gives the details of the school’s program including its mission, performance goals, methods of assessment and students served. People who are interested in quality education such as Peter Briger Fortress Investment Group principal and co-chairman of the board promote charter schools to provide college preparatory education for students in a certain locality. Is There a Difference Between...
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...failings of the U.S. school system. The film follows five students across the U.S., who range in grade level from kindergarten to eighth grade, as they try and escape the public school system through a lottery for a chance admission to a charter school. Guggenheim lays the blame for the failing public education system at the feet of the various teachers unions, and makes a plea for the public in general to get involved in reforming the system. By analyzing Waiting for Superman through a sociological perspective, issues of inequality will be explained using the theoretical approach of the conflict perspective. Waiting for Superman begins with the director, David Guggenheim driving past the Los Angeles public schools as he takes his own children to a private school. Guggenheim starts to explain the problems with public education, in regards to how it is failing our society in general, and that the only way for the average family to escape it, is luck. The documentary follows five children, four are minorities from lower income families and one is white from an affluent area of California. All five face the same problem, a public education system that views them as numbers that feed the system. They are not considered for their individual talents or shortcomings. They are all doomed to follow a predestined track, developed by a bureaucracy that favors the welfare of the teachers over the students. Guggenheim presents to the audience charter schools, an alternative to...
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...Grading 'Waiting for Superman' Dana Goldstein | September 23, 2010 Here's what you see in Waiting for Superman, the new documentary that celebrates the charter school movement while blaming teachers unions for much of what ails American education: working- and middle-class parents desperate to get their charming, healthy, well-behaved children into successful public charter schools. Here's what you don't see: the four out of five charters that are no better, on average, than traditional neighborhood public schools (and are sometimes much worse); charter school teachers, like those at the Green Dot schools in Los Angeles, who are unionized and like it that way; and noncharter neighborhood public schools, like PS 83 in East Harlem and the George Hall Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama, that are nationally recognized for successfully educating poor children. You don't see teen moms, households without an adult English speaker or headed by a drug addict, or any of the millions of children who never have a chance to enter a charter school lottery (or get help with their homework or a nice breakfast) because adults simply aren't engaged in their education. These children, of course, are often the ones who are most difficult to educate, and the ones neighborhood public schools can't turn away. You also don't learn that in the Finnish education system, much cited in the film as the best in the world, teachers are—gasp!—unionized and granted tenure, and families benefit from a...
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...For most public schools (Fern Creek, Hillcrest, Princeton, and Rock Lake) they were chosen because they were “A” schools located within a two miles radios of LECS thus they were competitors for LECS to watch out for in the domain of academic excellence and all other domains. Also it will be worthwhile for LECS to take note of “B” and even “C” ranked schools in this category for they could also pose potential threats to LECS in the future. For the Charter Schools, Nap Ford Community, Hope and Passport targeted students with special needs thus constituting another strategic group of competitors with different strategies but also focus on education which was the overall focus of LECS thus constituting a group of indirect competitors just like the religiously affiliated schools. However the direct competitor of LECS in this category of schools was Rio Grande since it was the most similar to LECS in its general education base charter. This school though had demonstrated some inconsistency in its ranking in the past by the state of Florida, had since 2006 reportedly been ranked “A” or “B” in its ranking thus indicating itself as a competitor for LECS to watch on carefully and keenly. Lastly looking at exhibit 1, Lake Eola Charter School has a strong position to compete with other school because the parent and donors are generally satisfied with the schools performance thus presenting the school with a good customer and financial base to rely on. This indicates that for every business...
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...Understanding Charter Schools: Authors: Thomas, Evan Winger, Pat Source: Newsweek; 6/21/2010, Vol. 155 Issue 25, p46-46, 1p Abstract This article discusses charter schools in the U.S. A study from Stanford University found that 37% of charter schools underperformed public schools, while just 17% delivered superior performance. A key reason is that foundering charter schools are often not shut down in a timely manner. In cities where this is not the case, charter schools tend to do well. For the past two decades, charter schools have been touted as a way of improving public schools—a no bureaucratic, innovative alternative designed to test new ideas that all schools could benefit from. Charter schools are generally (though not always) nonunion schools, freer to hire and fire teachers. The experimentation they’ve fostered has produced some of the best schools in the country. So it came as a bit of a shock to the community of educational reformers last year when a study by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) found that 37 percent of charter schools produce academic results that are worse than public schools, while only 17 percent perform significantly better. Earlier studies sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers’ union, had produced similar results, but they were suspect, since unions stood to lose from the charter-school movement. CREDO, on the other hand...
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