Skip to main contentRemainders: Chicago charters make bank with discipline tactic
By | February 14, 2012, 12:28am UTC - A Chicago charter school network earned $200,000 by fining students for discipline infractions. (CNC)
- City high schools with top progress report grades had few self-contained special ed students. (WNYC)
- The head of a Success Academy charter school says he wants to model work-life balance. (SchoolBook)
- Newark is building a “Teachers’ Village” to encourage educators to live in the city’s heart. (The Nation)
- An Orlando charter school has 50 percent students with disabilities — and does well. (State Impact)
- A Georgia superintendent has premiered his school reform plan as the “Macon Miracle.” (GPB)
- TedXNYED is holding an open casting call for city teachers with stories to tell or lesson to share. (TED)
- An in-depth look at Memphis’s possible consolidation, which could threaten recent reforms. (Atlantic)
- The Queens borough president’s pick for the PEP explains his “no” vote on closures. (NYC P.S. Parents)