Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009

TTT April 15 CHARTER SCHOOLS:New Views and Choices

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With years of service behind them now, Minnesota's charter schools get mixed reviews and uneven results in their governance, curriculum and results. Supporters maintain their view that these schools, while public, provide competitive choices – alternatives to the regular public system – for Minnesota families. Detractors say both statistics and data show that achievement is no better in charter schools, and, worse, have become agents of resegregation, focused as they often are on serving common ground groups – racial, ethnic, economic, geographic and intellectual. TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with advocates and critics about the history, impact and operation of the state's charter schools and what policymakers are doing to adjust to the mixed record of charter school success. GUESTS: • EUGENE PICCOLO – Executive Director, Minnesota Association of Charter Schools • REP. LINDA SLOCUM – House K-12 Finance Committee, Author, Charter School reform bill • SCOTT CROONQUIST – Executive Director, Association of Metropolitan School Districts • TOM LUCE – Research Director, UofM's Institute on Race and Poverty

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