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1) The academy
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Tyler High experiences frightening changes after voting to become a charter school.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"- if thats a synonym for getting the job done, shell take it. A born and bred New Yorker, former City Councilmember, and "charter czarina," Moskowitz has taken on powerful unions and politicians to establish and grow her astonishingly effective and popular charter school program in four of the citys five boroughs.In this unabashedly candid memoir, Moskowitz tells of how she became...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In an attempt to correct the perceived failures of public schools came the notion of school choice. One solution is charter schools: independent, privately run but publicly funded schools that now enroll more than three million students across forty-three states. Another is vouchers, which allow parents to use state dollars at their school of choice. But evidence of vouchers' success is scant, and many argue that they violate the First Amendment....
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
In order to sort out the claims and counter-claims that wars bring, this book presents some unique statistics on more than 100 individual public schools in New York City. Each charter school in this group is located in the same building with a traditional public school serving the same community. Test scores show charter school students achieving proficiency on educational tests at a rate several times the rate of other schools in the same buildings....
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