Olympic Charter

Charter Schools have been a debate amongst people since the 1980’s. They officially came onto the scene in 1991. The schools were thought up as a solution to the decline in results from students in district operated school systems. Twelfth graders in America were simply getting out tested by other countries’ students. In an effort to fix the problem these Charter Schools were introduced. Some solutions were to decrease class sizes to increase one-on-one help for students. For this to happen…

Over the last couple of years, headlines about schools have become more and more prevalent. Whether it was about school lunches (and how bad they are) or how schools are helping their students for the better, stories about schools have been and will always be in the headlines. However, there is one story that has shown up plenty of times and has no definite solution: underfunded public schools. Public schools all over the nation, from Chicago to Philadelphia, have been declining for a while.…

The charter school movement has expanded and gained power from 1997 to 2015. Although they are publicly are freed from many of the rules and commandments binding traditional public schools in a venture to increase student fulfillment. While teachers themselves have established up many charter school programs, teachers are also some of the most laud critics of the charter school development. A close look at the connection between teachers and charter schools disclose why this movement is such a…

When digging deeper into the charter school structure, many may inquire whether all charter schools are the same. While each charter school system shares similar qualities, such as the fact that they are all privately managed, that they are each constructed upon the basis of promoting independent thinking, and that they are all required to follow a particular set of state standards, it is important to understand that no two charter schools are the same. Under this charter school umbrella, a…

The program I choose is Charter School Program (CSP) which authorized by Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. And No Child Left Behind Act amended this program at 2001 year. It is administered by U.S. Department of Education at the federal level. Also, the department requires states to show adequate yearly progress (AYP) for various subgroups of students in reading and mathematics. The federal government strongly support the charter school program, one of the purpose…

Since the first established law for charter schools was passed in 1991 by Minnesota, charters have rapidly opened all over the country. The topic of charter schools these past ten years has been discussed plenty of times by politicians on how to better the education system. The heavy controversy surrounding charter schools revolves around its competition with the public school system. The opponent for public schools were private schools that offered accelerated education, although that education…

For the interview process, the two people that I interviewed were Martha Millison and Cecilia Rivas. Martha Millison is a school counselor at Green-Wood Charter School in Philadelphia and Cecilia Rivas is a CUA chief management supervisor. When both Martha and Cecilia came and spoke to our class, I was so intrigued by what they said that I wanted to know more about their work field. I especially found Martha job interesting because she works in a school setting and that’s where I want to work. I…

All immigrants should be required to learn to read and write English well, so they can have the same opportunities as everyone else. Living in America and not knowing how to speak English causes multiple complications. Some of the complications are not being able to read labels on prescription pills, menus in a restaurant, chemicals in products, and not understanding agreements in renting a house or in preceding surgical procedures. In the article from CNN, Kennedy proclaims, “Learning English…

Stevenson says that “high-flying charter schools” are not fair because the parents take initiative to apply the students to the schools, and they have to sign contracts agreeing to study, and have high performance. If the students don’t comply with the contract then they have to withdraw…

Introduction: Magnet schools are schools of choice that are part of the public school system. They were created for the purpose of reversing the de facto segregation that was happening in urban schools in the 1970s. The school and curriculum is often built around a theme. That theme may be a subject area like STEM or the arts or an emphasis on an educational program like the International Baccalaureate curriculum or the Advance Placement program. Magnet schools have no geographic boundaries for…