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		<title>Urban Charter Academies Out-Performing Public Schools</title>
		<description>Discuss Urban Charter Academies Out-Performing Public Schools</description>
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			<title>RE: Urban Charter Academies Out-Performing Public Schools</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Malcolm, that is the problem with a lot of our problems...blam ing others for our failings...DPS schools have been vastly underperforming for a long time, well before the onslaught of charter schools. The test results tell the story, and the only story that really counts. Charter schools are appealing to parents because they are the only hope for their kids to have a chance in life. The DPS schools are broken (most of them) and there is no way to fix them from inside-out, so we need a new solution, a new educational model. At the same time, simply being a charter school does not mean our kids are being properly prepared for their future, our future. It's the teaching methodologies and tools, the school environment, etc. that impacts our children. There are underperforming charter schools, and the individual school statistics demonstrate that. Let's engage in a proper discussion on educational solutions and not get caught up in hostility and misdirected blame...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Charter Schools Skim the Cream and Threaten Public Education</title>
			<link>http://www.michronicleonline.com/index.php/breaking-news/6321-urban-charter-academies-out-performing-public-schools#comment-826</link>
			<description><![CDATA[These statistics are skwewered, simply read the following: “Why do we (people) think African-America n students in public school academies are doing better? “Two big reasons. Number one, every kid who attends a PSA has something in common; they have parents who value education enough that they will do something, anything to try to give their kids a better educational experience than they think they are going to get in their home school,” Bauer said. Umm... no kidding. What charter schools do is skim off the public schools's cream of the crop leaving the underachiever's with disengaged parents in the public school, assuring their test scores and failure is guaranteed. . I'm sure transporation is a factor too. Charter Schools are doing reasonably well as what they were established to do: bankrupt traditional public education and create a society of haves and have nots. Regarding the latter, charter schools are a huge success.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malcolm</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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