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In Our View: WEA Targets Initiative 1240
Union's challenge to charter schools seems to ignore message of the voters As expected, the teachers union has filed a legal challenge to Washington's new charter school law, Initiative 1240, which was approved by voters last fall. The Washington...
WA Charter School Law Ranked as 3rd Best
An annual analysis of charter school laws ranks Washington's at the top The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) today announced the release of its annual rankings of state charter school laws across the country, listing...
State Board of Ed Reviews Charter Draft Rules
The State Board of Education met this week to review and discuss draft rules for the state’s first public charter schools. Members of the Washington Coalition for Public Charter Schools attended the public meeting to continue its leadership efforts...
WA Public Charter Schools Initiative Now State Law
Dear I-1240 supporters: The Washington Public Charter Schools Initiative (I-1240) became state law today after the November 2012 election was officially certified. We’d like to thank you for your help in passing this important initiative and...
I-1240 Represents ‘Tipping Point’ of Education Reform in Washington State
When it comes to education, there's much at stake Tuesday beyond the race for president. Voters in several states are being asked to approve significant changes to how public schools operate and are funded. … Let's start in Washington, which is one...
Charting an Escape Route for Washington’s 14,000 School Dropouts is in Voters’ Hands
Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Jose Banda is a thoughtful man with a personal narrative indicative of the ways educational inequalities challenge American dreams of careers and economic stability. I suspect Banda believed he was being...
Public Charter Schools Are One Way We Can Restore Full Confidence in Public Education
I-1240 (creating a public charter school system): Some 41 states already have such schools. They came into being a generation ago in response to complaints by minority parents, in particular, in big-city school systems that their kids were trapped...
I-1240 is a Real Step to Bring More Innovation Into Our Public Schools
The education reform movement has been gaining speed across the country, and a pair of important ballot initiatives next week in Washington and Idaho will either extend or retard that progress. Evergreen State voters will decide on Initiative 1240,...
Op-Ed: Why Teachers Will Love Charter Schools
By Liv Finne Washington Policy Center Bob Dean is a public school teacher and a supporter of Initiative 1240, the ballot measure to allow public charter schools in Washington. He is the head of his school's Math Department, teaches Advanced...