In an analysis of the California schools that serve the state’s poorest kids (meaning those schools that have over 70 percent of their students taking advantage of free or reduced lunches), it seems that out that of the 15 highest performing schools, twelve are charter schools. This is according to an announcement released this morning by the California Charter Schools Association.
The schools were assessed according to their state-calculated Academic Performance Index—or API—results, .
Three of the 12 high scoring charters are located in Los Angeles:
They are Global Education Academy, Crescendo Charter Conservatory, Synergy Charter Academy.
“These results show that charter schools are opening doors of opportunity for California’s most under-served students, and effectively advancing them on the path to academic success,” said Peter Thorp, who is the interim head of California Charter Schools Association. “These exemplary charter schools should be studied and their best practices replicated in the broader public school system so that more under-served children can benefit.”
That last part about studying how the methods of the high scoring charters and then making trying to replicate their successes……would seem to be a no brainer.
So, like, all you folks who work in the upper echelons of the Los Angeles Unified School District, you’ve gone over to check out these schools, right?
Right???? Anybody???
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PS: One out of the three high-scoring non-charter schools is in LA, Solano Avenue Elementary, a Los Angeles Unified school near Dodger Stadium.
That’s good news for the kids and must drive the teacher unions crazy.
What’s going to happen with charter schools with poor kids now that the economy has gone to hell? That’s been my problem with charter schools. Private schools are having problems. I think this is great, but I don’t see a great future here. I see a Kaiser Hospital. This all seemed very nice and dandy right now, but ten years from now I can’t help but be a bit cynical about what’s going to happen.
Charter schools with poor kids get funded pretty much the same as district schools. They will be around, as long as money is managed right; unlike the districts who invented the public funded bailouts.
As for Kaiser- having Kaiser hospital is better than having none at all.
Think about it.