Good day, CharterFolk.
I start with a great new resource from the National Charter School Founders Library about the original intent of charter schools and how it relates to the upcoming SCOTUS case.
Know your history, CharterFolk.
Speaking of history, the place where the first charter school in the nation opened — St. Paul, Minnesota — now has more than 30% of its public school students in charter schools and is one of the locations where PPI reported that gaps are closing and all boats are rising. Here’s a great story about why all boats rise.
Next, the Economist is great at doing the occasional pullback to see the broader education story. This one shows how learning collapse was most pronounced in blue states where closures were longest.
Klein’s interview this week with a Democratic pollster …
… shows that education policy, long a strong point for Democrats, has now shifted to one where Republicans hold a small edge. Encouragingly, while education is not a top priority, it’s higher than many other matters. The discussion covered a number of new polling trends I wasn’t aware of. On a few matters, I found my intuition confirmed, including the fact that voters are furious with the status quo right now, and policy makers should be aggressive and unapologetic in their quest for bold reform.
Got that, CharterFolk?
This was another interesting one from the Times about how Dubai has adopted policies meant to result in immigrants coming to their country who have either been denied access or have chosen to avoid the United States.
A perception of poor and unsafe education in the United States is an important contributor.
Just about every parent I spoke to worried about the rigor of public school education in the West generally but even more about safety, expressing disbelief that gun violence and school shootings are so common in the United States.
More divergence …
… education policy.
More of interest coming out of China: residential schools generate more learning and better outcomes generally.
No wonder CharterFolk work so hard to get residential programs done.
SEED LA opened in 2022, and is now enjoying its first year in its permanent facility.
On we go.