On May 31, 2016, the USDE released draft ESSA regulations that gave clarity for state accountability plans. Where is Minnesota in the process and what does this mean for chartered schools?
The Minnesota Association of Charter Schools invites all Minnesota charter schools to apply for the first Charter School Innovation Awards Program—created to showcase some of the most innovative practices being used in the state's charter schools. The Innovation Awards carry five $1,000 cash awards.
From 50 authorizers in 2009, to 24 today: Why the drop in organizations willing to serve this critical role, and what does the drop mean for the future of chartering in Minnesota?
MN was first to approve school chartering as a strategy for improving public education—this less regulated sector was to provide a space to try innovative strategies for teaching, learning and school organization. Now, 25 years in, we thought it helpful to provide a 10,000-foot overview of the sector today.
In the aftermath of the knockdown of the proposed rule that would have swept charter schools into the regulations on desegregation, it would be easy for the chartered sector to breathe relief—consider the matter closed. That would be wrong.
Charter school advocates were relieved this week after an administrative law judge confirmed that attempts at regulation exceeded the executive branch's authority.
This week we at Education Evolving begin a multi-pronged effort to help Minnesotans and others interested in the evolution of school gain a broader understanding of the role chartering is playing in improving public education in 2016.
Competitions for redesigning school are popping up everywhere. But is a great design enough? Is anyone asking the designers how they would get their new model into the system?
New research calls for the chartered public schools sector, now numbering 6,700+ schools with 2.9 million students, to become "better, broader, and bigger" and more innovative if it is to raise student achievement for today's global marketplace.
A decade after Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class became an award-winning book, co-author Curt Johnson recalls the debate he and Clay had back in ’05 of whether charter schools were ‘disruptive’ in a theoretical sense. Johnson asserts that in practice now the evidence is clear: chartering is disrupting public education.
