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April 10, 2013
April 10, 2013 Download or print your PDF copy of the Parent Power Index Scoring Rubric Read more »
January 22, 2013
January 22, 2013 Download or print your PDF copy of the Parent Power Index Scoring Rubric Click here for more on Parent Power Index Methodology. Read more »
July 11, 2012
Summary of Findings from Latest Survey July 2012 The Center for Education Reform (CER) conducted a random survey of registered North Carolina voters* to gauge their knowledge and perceptions of charter schools. Key findings are highlighted below. North Carolina strongly supports charter schools. 70 percent of surveyed North Carolinians say they support “allowing communities to [...] Read more »
July 11, 2012
Summary of Findings from Latest Survey July 2012 The Center for Education Reform (CER) conducted a random survey of registered Florida voters* to gauge their knowledge and perceptions of charter schools. Key findings are highlighted below. Floridians strongly support charter schools. 60 percent of surveyed Floridians say they support “allowing communities to create new public [...] Read more »
May 15, 2012
Summary of Findings from Latest Survey May 2012 In May 2012, the Center for Education Reform (CER) conducted a random survey of registered Tennessee voters* to gauge their knowledge and perceptions of charter schools. Key findings are highlighted below. Tennesseans overwhelmingly support charter schools. 71 percent of surveyed Tennesseans say they support “allowing communities to [...] Read more »
April 3, 2012
1) SCHOOLS — 2)
ENROLLMENT — 3) TEACHERS —
4) STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO — 5)
EXPENDITURES —
6) SALARIES AND WAGES — 7)
FUNDING Schools: TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS: 13,809
(Digest of Education Statistics: 2010, Table 91) TOTAL NUMBER OF K-12 SCHOOLS: 132,656
(Digest 2010, Chapter 1, Table 5) Elementary: 88,982 [...] Read more »
March 13, 2012
Entering 2012, the state of Virginia was coping with the effects of a faulty funding formula, which did not provide equity for all students statewide, that the existence of full-time virtual schools had exposed. Senate Bill 598 was introduced in January to fix the problem by insuring fair funding for public school students who wanted [...] Read more »
March 6, 2012
For the past few years, Idaho senators have stood in the way of removing a statewide cap on the number of charter schools created each year. It looks like that barrier has been partially broken, but one more test remains to eliminate the cap. Read more »
March 6, 2012
The commission setting criteria for authorizing the schools may not decide until July 1.
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March 6, 2012
State effort will gauge effective teaching in CMS and statewide.
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