Olympic Charter

article, it tells how there are many schools closing, combining or relocating within the next few years in Philadelphia. Reasons why these schools may be closing are the lack of funding, overcrowding, lack of resources, increased competitiveness in charter schools and students being forgotten. Philadelphia is known as having one of the worst school districts in the country. A good portion of this statistic is due to funding. Funding is something that is at the base of all problems and all solutions. For these Philadelphia schools discussed in this article, funding is an issue. Overbrook, Gompers and Cassidy are planning to add a seventh grade to their school next year. However, they are just going to throw students in the building…

Charters are independent to choose their own methods of teaching thus boosting performance. Due to this most if not all provide a specialized curriculum. Such benefits are not available to public schools. As stated by Eskenazi, Stuart (July 22, 1999) their curriculum is set by the government and is to be followed strictly (pg. 2). Performance is valued in both charter and public but emphasized more in the former. Lack of good performances keeps the community away from hence enrolment numbers…

This definitely was not how Schroth (2016) and Levine (2016) saw the situation, not only did Levine point out that students were behind in grade, he asserted the fact that teachers needed to adjust their methods and Schroths’ statement supported Levine, because he believed that teachers were failing students, as they were enrolling in college, lacking the basic common core fundamentals to be successful. Atkenson, S., & Will, M. (2014) explained how charter schools in certain states were…

on the number of charter schools should be canceled and postponed. Current evidence does not adequately prove the success or failure of charter schools. We need to investigate more on the minimum requirement for a charter school to succeed in meeting its expectations and make sure that those conditions will be available by the time the charter “cap” is removed again. The expected impact of charter schools including on student achievement. Charter schools have been positively received by most of…

the world gets ready for the Olympics. We root for our perspective countries and form strong bonds with the competitors through our TV screens. However, one never stops to think about what goes in to making this large event a reality. It takes seven years from the day a host city is chosen to the actual opening ceremony (IOC, 2015). Behind the scenes of this movement is the International Olympic Committee. The IOC is a large component of the Olympic Movement. In addition to making sure they are…

different things affected people in certain ways and how you could tell they were affected by it. I learned that there is a large variety of evidence for the reasons in which children behave differently and the reasons why they act in those certain ways. In this class I was engaged in a community school in Midtown Jackson, a well-known low income community. The school I helped at was a charter school known as Midtown Public Charter School. The only difference in the charter school compared…

population capable of paying taxes to fund new schools. In response to this problem and the existing problem of a bankrupt school system, the United States government offered substantial financial assistance to organizations and districts that would open charter schools (Garda, 2011). Hurricane Katrina was seen by some as a blessing to the New Orleans school district, allowing for a complete reconstruction and reform of education. The reform was seen as an opportunity to improve prominent race…

definition is to remove (something) from government control and place it in private control or ownership. In other words change the ownership from public to private. Privatization is happening all over the U.S., for instance, Republicans want to replace the IRS agents with private debt collection agencies, New Jersey wants to privatize the public water system and 911 services, Florida would like the public transportation to be privatized, and finally Wisconsin would like to privatize all…

Charter schools are run by private organizations or corporations and they are run by the government so they do not have to follow NCLB. The quote goes, “Cyber-charters, which offered online instructions to students at home, were receiving full payment for each student and amassing multimillion-dollar reserves” (Ravitch 134); Charter schools is an investment, a way for big corporations to make money; they get millions of dollars for funding yet they can only be a cyber school. The quote states,…

phenomenon has long been examined. Scholars have articulated different theories in attempt to try to explain social movements by answering questions the key questions: How? What? Why? I will attempt to do the same. The what in my case is the contemporary on going debate of the Charter School Movement and counter-movement. The why is clear, in that both movements’ goals are to provide opportunities for a quality education. The how question however, is a lot less clear. But through careful…