Port Richmond Charter School Mission: Every student should experience learning successes, become literate, confident and caring, be able to think critically, solve problems, and communicate effectively. Students will become productive respectful members of the community. My school is being created to maintain an environment that allows students the opportunity to succeed and excel in all areas of life. Port Richmond Charter (PRC) will be located on the 2800 block of Richmond Street. I believe this would be an ideal location for various reasons. This location has easy access to and from I-95. T...

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... teachers unions and their allies will try to limit and even eliminate this system. All in all, Chester feels that although charter schools are not a cure-all for American education, but in his surveys of the past two years showed him that charter schools are a promising education-reform strategy. The second article titled To Market, To Market by Phyllis Vine, who is a journalist ... the childrens short. According to Vine the educational systems is a $600 billion market. From Vine's article there are about twenty-eight state's legislation that supports charter schools. Although there are ...

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... teachers unions and their allies will try to limit and even eliminate this system. All in all, Chester feels that although charter schools are not a cure-all for American education, but in his surveys of the past two years showed him that charter schools are a promising education-reform strategy. The second article titled To Market, To Market by Phyllis Vine, who is a journalist ... the childrens short. According to Vine the educational systems is a $600 billion market. From Vine's article there are about twenty-eight state's legislation that supports charter schools. Although there are ...

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... Nonprofit Partners Advancing Values in Education said it plans to raise $40 million over the next five years to provide low interest loans for renovation and expansion of voucher and charter schools. The Bradley Foundation, which has donated an estimate of $21 million to support school choice in the past, pledged $20 million to the loan fund. This is a win- ... Parental Choice Program. The other reform effort bases it's plan on charter school systems. Charter schools help reduce the class size in our overcrowded classrooms throughout the United States. In a recent study they found that e...

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... school system and how it is not working for the Native Americans in it. So, in hopes to find something that would work for them, charter schools were brought into the public eye of the Native Americans. There was a "narrowness of the system that controls the education process."" (1972) They ... American people had been asking for over a century.""(2000) The author of this piece gives us enlightenment on the subject of charter schools. He introduces us to a teacher who is in the chater school system and lets her shed light on what we are ... out their day. Community based and "tailor made ...

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... (Shultz 4). Sizer continues talking about the "happy engagement" between parents and community members starting a regional charter school. This would give students more options when it becomes time for a student to attend school. A charter school is much like a private school, except that money a public school receives for that student would ... follow him/her to the charter school. Sizer writes that if you "give people a cause worth following and the dignity of a necessary role for ... and are not aware of how their child spends his or her free time" (www.mindspring.com). Steinberg pro...

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... every kid. You put a little bit of entrepreneurism back into schools." He points to changes in the Lansing public schools, such as all-day kindergarten, that came only after charter schools opened nearby. While Shields acknowledges public schools offer special education and other programs that many private schools don't provide, he thinks vouchers would encourage private schools to offer such programs, especially since vouchers for special education ... students may be higher. But Linda Bruin, legal counsel for the Michigan Association of School Boards, said vouchers wouldn't improve pu...

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... the difference between a school with a higher academic average and that of a lower one is all in the method of teaching and the state of the learning environment. Take for instance charter schools. Before charter schools came along most urban kids had to make do with inexperienced teachers, bad equipment and very little attention. Put a D student from a learning environment like the one just described into ... a charter school where the school is allowed to choose its own curriculum, set its own standards of qualification for its teachers etc. You get an A student who takes his/her work...

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