Educators Spar Over Goal of Charter Schools; City's Truth Institute Reflects Clash On Need for Oversight, Ingenuity
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › August 03, 2006
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When Debbie Robinson first heard that Milwaukee school officials wanted to close the charter school her son had attended for two years, she thought "somebody was playing a joke."
Robinson said the students at the Truth Institute for Leadership and Service had built a relationship with the school and its staff. She complained that "now the relationship's being broken by someone who is not even in the family."See the full content of this document
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Educators Spar Over Goal of Charter Schools; City's Truth Institute Reflects Clash On Need for Oversight, Ingenuity
After much heated testimony and discussion, a brooding Milwaukee School Board decided this summer to give Truth Institute one more year to improve abysmal test scores.
The debate over Truth's fate was a flashpoint in Milwaukee and a sign of the much broader tensions over the future of charter schools across the country.At stake in the debate is the very notion of wh...See the full content of this document
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