Charter School Map
Homeroom Blog, Los Angeles Times, CA, May 22, 2008
Families considering their school choices for the fall can look at more charter schools all the time. The Center for Education Reform has a website page …

Take This Lesson To Heart: Public Schools Have Failed
D.C. Examiner, D.C., May 22, 2008
If you can read this, thank your teachers but not their union. For years, we’ve watched a systemic breakdown of American education — thanks in large part to the self-serving agenda of unions and the National Education Association.

KIPP Seeking Good Fits
Columbus Dispatch, OH, May 22, 2008
Although the KIPP Journey Academy won’t start until Aug. 6, recruits to the new charter school are being taught its way now

Online School Targets Hispanics, At-Risk
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY, May 22, 2008
The state’s newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.

D.C. Schools Chief Touts Value of Education Entrepreneurs
Education Week, MD, May 21, 2008
Ms. Rhee also noted that the city’s large charter school sector, which now serves about 30 percent of the city’s public school students, has been helpful in pressing for other changes, including what she touted as a “revolutionary” contract now being negotiated with the local teachers’ union.

The State of Georgia’s Lead in School Choice
National Ledger, AZ, May 21, 2008
This past week Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the most expansive school-choice program in the nation. Unlike similar programs in other States, this program has no demographic restriction.

School Vouchers Add Sizzle to S.C. House Race
Rock Hill Herald, SC, May 22, 2008
School vouchers are dominating the dialogue between Gullick and Boyd as they square off for the right to represent 33,000 people in South Carolina’s largest House district.

School Charts Fundraising Course
Ventura County Star, CA, May 22, 2008
They recently created a nonprofit organization, called the University Charter Schools Education Foundation, to jump-start their fundraising efforts.

When Public School Doesn’t Fit
Mountain Home News, ID, May 22, 2008
McKenna is just one option students and parents have when looking for alternatives to traditional public schools in Mountain Home.