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Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland: Public Charter Schools Help Children Succeed
As a proud graduate of Tacoma Public Schools, an advocate for public education and an elected official who cares deeply about our city and state’s future, I urge you to join me and cast your vote for Initiative 1240. Studies show that public...
The Olympian Endorses YES on 1240–Public Charter Schools Essential to Goal of Innovating K-12
The Washington public school system needs more innovation, especially to meet the needs of low-income, high-risk children from communities of color struggling in traditional public schools. Initiative 1240 provides an avenue for inventive...
Spokesman-Review Urges YES on 1240—Teachers, Parents and Students Deserve to Seek Their Own Results
...[I]t’s time, finally, for Washington voters to approve charter schools by saying yes to Initiative 1240. Education is not about teachers, or schools, or school systems, it’s about children; students no more alike than the stubby snowflakes...
Charter Success Story: Bronx Charter School Awarded Blue Ribbon by US Department of Education
The Bronx Charter School for Excellence won the distinction of being one of three charter schools in the state to win a National Blue Ribbon Schools Award from the U.S. Department of Education. BCSE won in the category, “Exemplary High Performing...
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Urges YES Vote on 1240–It’s Time to Embrace the Option of Public Charter Schools
The top priority of most citizens in Washington state is to improve education. It’s the right priority. And this is why it makes sense for the voters to embrace Initiative 1240, which would allow charter schools to be established. Charter schools...
Seattle Business Chamber Endorses YES on 1240 to Improve K-12 Education
The Chamber’s Board of Trustees also adopted a resolution supporting Initiative 1240, which would allow a limited number of charter schools in the state. The Chamber has historically supported efforts to improve K-12 education in Washington state, and specific to [I-1240], members believe there is compelling evidence that it will provide parents and students with a proven alternative for education that already exists in many states throughout the country.
Tacoma News-Tribune Endorses YES on 1240’s Public Charter Schools as Option Struggling Children Deserve
The measure would authorize the creation of up to 40 charter schools, public schools freed from many bureaucratic regulations. They are commonly launched and governed by teachers and parents who believe their local schools are failing their students.
Seattle Times: The Achievement Gap is Real and Bridging It Requires Public Charter Schools
Washington state is failing too many of its 1 million public-school children. Despite an on-time graduation rate of 76.6 percent for the class of 2011, overall nearly one in four students do not graduate on time. Of those who do, too many are unprepared for college-level work. …
State Attorney General Says I-1240 ‘Clearly Constitutional’
OLYMPIA — Charter schools would be constitutional in Washington state under the system proposed by this year’s ballot initiative, Attorney general and would-be governor Rob McKenna said Tuesday.