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Then, starting last fall, the district instituted a reform known as controlled school choice. It resembles other popular forms of school choice, such as vouchers and charter schools--only there's a twist. While Vicksburg parents took their pick of three schools closest to their home, the district used race as a consideration in making assignments, to achieve diversity in each school. After the numbers were crunched, 85% of parents got their first choice of school. Even more eye popping: the schools now boast near equal head counts of black and white students...
Still, many parents resisted. Balking at longer bus rides, some signed up their kids for private schools. One faction made a short-lived bid to build a charter school closer to their homes. But by midyear, many of those parents had transferred their children back--and they were joined by some parents who had been using private schools for years. A man who once backed the charter-school campaign won a school board seat. Those who had been in the system all along are touting the benefits of vigilant parenting. "The more you hang around the school, the more your...
...programs. "I couldn't get a single parent to attend a planning meeting, and we had just won a state championship in football," he says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last opportunity: to open a publicly financed charter school. Governor Mike Huckabee had signed legislation in early 1999 that would allow for as many as 12 charter schools, independent of local districts, to be established in the state. So Brothers, along with the Chamber of Commerce director, Mayor Dickie Kennemore and others settled on a plan for what...
...charter-school advocates knew they would face resistance, but they did not expect the full-throttle counterattack they got. The first hitch occurred when the state education department took a full six months after the new law was adopted to issue 12 pages of onerous rules and regulations governing Arkansas charter schools. Even at that pace, lobbyists for the state's school boards, administrators and teachers protested that the process was moving too quickly. The bureaucratic delay left Brothers and his allies barely three months to identify an appropriate school site, draw up policies for admissions, personnel and attendance, hold...
...RCAA became a membership governance organization which, under Massachusetts law, means that a name or charter change requires two-thirds of the members to vote--roughly 20,000 people in this case...