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...Benjamin Banneker Charter School, one of seven charter schools recently accepted by a state advisory committee, will be Cambridge's first. The founding coalition includes parents, teachers and administrators, as well as Harvard Law School Professors Charles J. Ogletree, Law '78 and Charles R. Nesson...
...reaction of Cambridge School CommitteeMember Denise Simmons was markedly different. Thecommittee, which was involved in neither theapproval nor the planning of charter schools, wasinformed of the decision early this week, andSimmons argued that the charter coalition wasasking the state for too much...
...Hrnicek says the group's charter makes thedistinction between Christians in Action and theBoston Church of Christ. "It is set forth in thecharter that I want to put on a Bible study grouptaught from the [Boston Church of Christ]perspective," he says...
Sometimes the results are invigorating. Frustrated by poorly run public schools, activist parents are changing the face of American education with reforms from school vouchers to charter schools and the private management of public schools. ``I've seen schools that have been totally transformed,'' said Diana Nelson, a mother of two, during a convention earlier this month of parents serving on local public-school councils in Chicago. One by one, parents stood up and explained their concerns, some near tears. During a training session called Speak Up!, participants broke into small groups to practice testifying before state legislators...
...standards, then whose? And what about those schools that must first cope with gunfights in the hallways before teaching the import of the Emancipation Proclamation? Diane Ravitch, the author of the forthcoming book National Standards in American Education, points to the growing successes of such community-based programs as charter schools. ``We have had a one-size- fits-all system, and it doesn't work,'' she says. ``The move toward tailoring schools for different students is a good...