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Briana is now a happy second-grader at the Benjamin Banneker School, Cambridge's first and only charter school, located in North Cambridge...
Part of a nationwide charter school movement, the Banneker school opened its doors this past September, joining over 400 charter schools currently operating across the country...
...type of independent public school, a charter school is usually started by parents, teachers, businesses and community leaders who are dissatisfied with the curriculum and teaching methods or fed up with budget battles and bureaucracy at traditional schools...
...Here was an opportunity for parents and teachers to do something they wanted to do--run a public school the way they wanted it to be run," says Charles S. Nesson '60, Weld professor of law at the Harvard Law School, who helped form the school's charter proposal...
...Graham says the student exhibitions promote parental involvement, a necessary component for the success of any charter school...