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Understanding Charter Schools |
Innovative charter schools outperform bureaucratic public schools every time—right? WRONG Some 15 of NEWSWEEK’s top 100 public high schools are charter schools. Since charter schools amount to only about 4 percent of all public schools, that would seem to suggest that charter schools are a runaway success story, right?Well, sort of. For the past two decades, charter schools have been touted as a way of improving public schools—a nonbureaucratic, innovative alternative designed to test new ideas that all schools could benefit from. Charter schools are generally (though not always) nonunion schools, freer to hire and fire teachers. The experimentation they’ve fostered has produced some of the best schools in the country. |
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Save Education Funding, TAKE ACTION NOW |
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With the fiscal year ending June 30, the Senate and Assembly are meeting daily to adopt a single compromise budget to send to the Governor. While there are several budget proposals being considered the Assembly's budget plan, the California Jobs Budget, fully funds education and protects classified employees jobs. As we reported in a previous PAC Flash, Assembly Speaker John A. Perez has put forward a budget known as the California Jobs Budget. It's an innovative plan that will close the budget deficit and reject the Governor’s draconian cuts to education and safety net programs and create and protect 465,000 jobs to help stimulate our economy. The Assembly budget plan rejects the Governor’s false choice of pitting social services against education against jobs. The California Jobs Budget rejects the Governor’s call to break the July 2009 education budget agreement memorialized in AB 4X 3 and rejects the manipulation or suspension of Proposition 98, and rejects the Governor’s proposed $4.1 billion cut in education. The Assembly budget plan protects working families from devastating cuts in services like home care and child care, and saves jobs for school employees, police, firefighters and others who provide vital services at the state and local levels. |
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