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Debate at the State House is brewing over how many charter schools Massachusetts should have--currently, there are 34. For its advocates, Banneker--and other charter schools--exemplifies how schools can escape bureaucracy and foster solutions to students' specific needs...
Because of the structure of the charter school, Birkett has reason to put in long hours. He hires and fires teachers directly, manages a $3.8 million budget and holds weekly full- staff meetings. He communicates with the Board of Trustees, the school's governing overseers...
Banneker's 30 teachers present a balanced racial mix, with half minority and half non-minority. They come from different educational backgrounds, but all beat out heavy competition to join the charter school movement...
...challenge of getting a state charter...
...gain the charter, the founding group had to prove the school would offer something the Cambridge public schools did not--so they went with a math and science focus...