At 1:38 am this morning, the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed a budget article that restored funding for new charter schools as its last order of business for the night. After a heated debate, the measure to restore $1.5 million in funding for two new charter schools passed on a 47-26 vote. […]
Archive for June, 2009
Funds Restored for New Charter Schools
Published by June 25th, 2009 in Charter Schools, Federal Government, Great Leadership, Legislature, Mayoral Academies, Mayors, Obama and Race to the Top. 1 CommentHow Your Representatives Voted on Charter Schools
Published by June 25th, 2009 in Charter Schools and Legislature. 1 CommentA “Yea” vote means a vote in support of charter schools, and a “Nea” vote is against charter schools.
Rhode Island House of Representatives Charter Schools Vote FY2010
What It’s All About: Results
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Charter Schools, KIPP, Mayoral Academies, Middle Schools, New York, No Excuses and Urban Schools. 0 CommentsAt the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether a great school is operated as a district or a charter public school. All that matters is whether the school succeeds in educating children: the student outcomes, or results. If Democracy Prep’s Harlem school operated in Rhode Island, this school, comprised almost entirely […]
Lead ProJo Editorial: “Save These Charters”
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Charter Schools, Legislature, Mayoral Academies and Mayors. 1 CommentOn a day where many controversial issues will be debated on the Rhode Island House of Representatives Floor, many ranging into the tens of millions of dollars, it’s quite telling that the Providence Journal chose one issue to highlight for the lead editorial in today’s paper: saving $1.5 million in funding for new charter […]
Rhode Island in National Spotlight
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Charter Schools, Federal Government, Great Leadership, Legislature, Mayoral Academies and Obama. 1 CommentYesterday, readers in communities across the nation opened their local paper or logged on to their local news Web site to read about the fight for new charter schools in Rhode Island.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan chose to speak about Rhode Island in his interview with AP reporter Libby Quaid, after he spoke out for […]
U.S. to R.I.: Finance charter schools
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Charter Schools, Federal Government, Great Leadership, Legislature, Mayoral Academies and Obama. 1 CommentHeadline says it all, in today’s Providence Journal:
PROVIDENCE — Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in Washington on Monday that Rhode Island may be putting itself at “at a huge competitive disadvantage” for securing federal stimulus dollars.
The General Assembly’s proposed 2010 budget eliminates $1.5 million that Governor Carcieri wanted to spend to open two new charters […]
Secretary Duncan Speaks Out on Rhode Island Charters
Published by June 22nd, 2009 in Charter Schools, Federal Government, Funding, Great Leadership, Mayoral Academies and Obama. 2 CommentsThis morning at the national charter schools conference in Washington DC, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was asked about the situation in Rhode Island. He responded, in front of a room of thousands of people and national media:
Places like Rhode Island that are thinking about under-funding charters are obviously going to put themselves […]
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