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MIDLAND — The launch of a new public charter high school in Beaver County takes several leaps forward this week, as Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School (MITCS) announced it is receiving a major grant and two significant donations that will further its work. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools (PCPCS) revealed MITCS as one of three sub-grantees who may receive as much as $1.5 million each through Pennsylvania’s Charter School Program (PACSP) Grant. Th...

Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School Secures Major Funding New charter school initiative receives support from Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools, PGT Trucking, and C.J. Betters News provided by Share this article Share this article MIDLAND, Pa., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The development and launch of a new public charter high school is taking several leaps forward this week, as Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School (MITCS) announced it is receiving a major g...

TDOE Charter School Expansion Grants Awarded To 15 Applicants Awards Will Fund 8,800 New Charter School Seats For Tennessee Students Friday, May 7, 2021 The Tennessee Department of Education on Friday announced that 15 applicants have been awarded subgrants under the Charter School Expansion Grant, including two in Hamilton County. These funds are intended to support sponsors throughout the planning, design, application, and potential launch of new charter schools in the state.  These su...

NationofChange Where the Federal government’s charter school program went wrong The program gives millions to schools that disrupt rather than improve a system of public education that needs to serve all students. From the outset, charter schools were somewhat of a blind man’s elephant—people saw in them whatever they wanted—but two competing theories that helped propel the charter movement were that the schools would serve as laboratories for experimenting with ...

by Shawgi Tell / May 3rd, 2021 Over the years, as more problems with charter schools have been exposed, analyzed, and critiqued, more people have come to see the need for opposing them and for defending public education and the public interest. Criticism and rejection of these privately-operated schools has become more mainstream in recent years and it is safe to say that opposition to charter schools will keep growing so long as neoliberals and privatizers impose more charter schools on societ...

How the federal government’s charter school program went wrong boy in green sweater writing on white paper From the outset, charter schools were somewhat of a blind mans elephant—people saw in them whatever they wanted—but two competing theories that helped propel the charter movement were that the schools would serve as laboratories for experimenting with new education approaches that could be shared with public school districts, or that charters were created to ...

CONWAY — The Northeast Woodland Chartered Public School learned last Friday that the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee voted 7-3 to accept the first $10.1 million of a $46 million federal grant to expand public charter schools in New Hampshire. The grant was hung up by the formerly Democratic-led committee. Following the November election, the committee is now Republican led. Last weeks vote was along party lines. Northeast Woodland, which opened its doors in September in Conway to 145 K-...

Credit Allegra Boverman for NHPR New Hampshire lawmakers have approved a federal grant aimed at increasing the number of public charter schools in the state and helping existing ones expand. The grant has been at the center of a fierce partisan debate for a year and was repeatedly blocked by State House Democrats, who cited concerns about the long-term sustainability of publicly-funded charter schools. But with Republicans now in the majority, the $10.1 million grant sailed through the Legis...

Years we have actually rewound and education system that took 150 years to build. the fact that we have gotten more than 3 million kids in charter kids, we probably have another half a million schools of choice, schools, districts like dc have as many as 45% of kids in school of choice. this is an issue that people are more comfortable with but theres always in state but what we are fighting fighting fighting fighting in kentucky to treat charter school program that is getting pushed back by sch...