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Meet the Inaugural Washington State Charter Leader Cohort
Today, the Washington State Charter Schools Association announced the members of the inaugural Washington State Charter Leader Cohort. These committed, trailblazing school leaders were chosen from a national search that resulted in over two-dozen...
Federal Charter School Grant Webinars
The Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement has announced their 2013 grant process for planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools. There will be two webinars explaining the application...
Summary of charter school research finds positive academic results for charter school students
There are mainly positive results for students who attend public charter schools compared with traditional public schools, a summary of current research on public charter schools concludes. The report, published by the National Alliance for Public...
Spady continues his pursuit of charter-school success
No name is more synonymous with charter school fights in Washington the past two decades than Spady. Ever since Jim and Fawn Spady moved their son out of a Seattle public school and into a private one in 1994, they've been on the front lines of a...
AP article on Washington State Charter Schools Association
With the opening of Washington's first charter school likely 15 months away, more dollars from Seattle's tech economy are flowing toward groups that want to change the way the state thinks about public schools. In November, Washington became the...
Getting Washington’s charter schools right from the beginning
BY MARTA REYES-NEWBERRY Working with teachers, school districts, local leaders, parents, and state officials, we can build a public education system that works best for Washington’s students. It is that time of year. The mad dash to the school-year...
Collaborating to Create High Quality Public Charter Schools in Washington State
BY DAVID BLEY This post originally ran on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists blog Collaboration. It is a concept we instill in our children as early as possible, from sharing toys with siblings to being a team player at...
Introducing the Washington State Charter Schools Association
Welcome to the Washington State Charter Schools Association website. The Association is a new statewide nonprofit that will support the start-up of high-quality public charter schools, with a focus on serving at-risk populations and students...
New study on how charter schools serve students with disabilities
A recent report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) sheds new light on the findings on a June 2012 Government Accountability Office study that found that nationally charter schools serve fewer students with disabilities than...