All Posts Tagged: 'Green Dot Public Schools'


LA Teacher’s Union Wins the Day

February 25th, 2010 | Category: Educational Choice

When it was adopted last summer by the Los Angeles School Board, the Public School Choice resolution has heralded as a huge victory for education reformers in California. Under this resolution, charter schools, Mayor Villaraigosa’s Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (PLAS), the teacher union and the district itself would compete to operate not only a [...]

Green Dot Rising

May 6th, 2009 | Category: Educational Choice

Doug McGray has written a terrific piece in this weeks’ New Yorker about Steve Barr and Green Dot Public Schools’ insurgent campaign to reform public education in Los Angeles–and now beyond. As with most good narrative articles, it’s not readily summarizable (and the endlessly quotable Barr makes it a lively read in any case, e.g. [...]

Charter Schools are Great — But Not Why You Think

May 9th, 2008 | Category: Educational Choice

The recent celebration of National Charter Schools Week is as good a time as any to make an observation that’s been rattling around in my mind for a while in search of a home, or lacking that, a blog post. Which is: charter schools are a boon to public education, but not for the reasons [...]