Charter Schools

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June 25, 2011
OPINION - Since 1909, the NAACP has worked with parents, educators, and administrators to ensure a better education for all…
June 15, 2011
WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama joined 400 volunteers to help build a playground at the Imagine Southeast Public Charter…
June 8, 2011
VIDEO - Catherine Ferguson Academy is unlike any other school in the country. It has been educating teen mothers since…
June 7, 2011
OPINION - The latest frontline of the public school vs. charter school battlefield is happening in the most famous African-American…
May 19, 2011
OPINION - It seems unlikely that the 5,000 public charter schools with 1.7 million students are about to become the…
April 6, 2011
OPINION - The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's…
February 4, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Compton parents won their first victory in court Thursday as they battle the Compton Unified School District…
August 26, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - This fall, more then 70 percent of New Orleans public school students will attend charter schools...
August 13, 2010
OPINION - Your zip code and your income may determine where you live...but they shouldn't determine your child's future...
August 10, 2010
OPINION - We need to get rid of the system that protects bad teachers and makes it impossible to reward…
June 30, 2010
OPINION - With the growth of the charter school movement since the 1990s to offer choice and accountability in public…
June 28, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - For each boy, the new school offered an escape and a chance at a life that seemed…
May 17, 2010
VIDEO - Sheri Lynn Davis, the Houston teacher caught on tape beating a 13-year-old student, is now facing unemployment, criminal…
March 9, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Tim King was, in his words, the "stereotypical bourgie black kid"...
January 19, 2010
From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature…
January 11, 2010
VIDEO - Rwanda and Kenya might as well be on another planet for most middle-school students. But not at Team…
January 4, 2010
HOUSTON (AP) -- This year, North Central, which opened in 2003 and serves 6th through 12th grade, will become the…
September 29, 2009
The Rev. Al Sharpton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich don't agree on much, but a meeting with a group…
September 16, 2009
OPINION - Do charter schools live up to the hype? The truth is they don't. There is no real distinguishable…