Nina Rees wasn’t the first person to lead the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. But her tenure witnessed the sector’s largest growth as well as some of the harshest attacks from critics who see charters as a threat to traditional public schools. Her announcement last month to leave the position she’s held since 2012 […]
Despite a reputation as one of the nation’s hottest markets, with steady population growth since the pandemic, enrollment is dropping in Hillsborough County’s traditional public schools. Twenty-day student counts released this week show schools run by the school district had a net loss of 1,581 students when compared with the 20th day of 2022-23. By comparison, charter schools — which get .
It hasn’t always had a positive connotation; some alternative schools are where students who struggled in traditional public schools would go to finish up their class credits. It’s not every day you see a student leading the class. "We've passed the age of just sort of factory cookie cutter preparation of our children," said Mikayla Streeter, the founding principal of The LIFE School.
So students, don’t fret about your public schools not getting enough money to help you overcome your learning loss. Don’t fret about your learning loss, or about teachers feeling sad about having to “out” their students, or keep good literature away from you, or not getting a proper salary, or rich kids getting more money for their schools than you get for your schools.