Local charter school Albert Einstein Academy for the Letters, Arts and Sciences appealed Wednesday to the Los Angeles County Board of Education for its petition on a local K-8 school, according to Jeffrey Shapiro, the school’s executive director.
The school gained approval Wednesday for a kindergarten-through-12th-grade school in the Alpine Union School District in San Diego County, Shapiro said.
“We just had an elementary school and a high school approved unanimously, with staff support in San Diego County,” Shapiro said
Shapiro is taking the approval as a good sign toward the school’s petition to the Los Angeles County Board of Education, which received an appeal for Einstein Academy’s charter school in the Santa Clarita Valley.
The school currently operates a junior high/high school chartered by the William S. Hart Union High School District.
“I’m just thrilled that we’re able to offer the educational alternative and the educational quality that Einstein brings for parents and students,” Shapiro said. “I’m confident that our new schools will experience the same success that our founding school has.”
Einstein Academy scored a 908 on the state’s Academic Performance Index scale in 2011, which rates schools’ ability to improve student scores on the state’s annual benchmark testing. In 2012, the school earned a 910 on the 0-1,000 scale.
Locally, the school has received three denials on its petition to charter with the Saugus Union School District for a K-8 school.
At the hearings, SUSD officials expressed concern that the school, if chartered as a K-8, would not have the funding sources it cited in the school’s petition. Shapiro countered that the board has not made a “full faith and credit” effort in dealing with the charter.
The Alpine Union School District is an 1,800-student K-8 district in San Diego, which operates a middle school, three K-8s, a kindergarten and a home school.
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Here’s copy of an enlightening article by Arlene Ackerman (teacher, principal, & school district superintendent of Philadelphia for over 43 years):
Access to a quality education is the civil rights battle of our generation…Real reform will never come from within the system because too many powers that be (the teachers’ union, politicians, consultants, vendors, etc.) have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo that is failing our children…
Meaningful education reform must be forced upon the system from outside by giving parents of all income levels real choices about where their children go to school.
After 43 years served as a teacher, principal, and school district superintendent of Philadelphia, Arlene Ackerman has come to a sad realization – school change must come from parents, outside the system, not from the “powers that be” within. She never met a parent who did not want what she wanted for her own children and grandchildren – a quality public school education.
For the last 43 years, I’ve served as a teacher, principal, and school district superintendent with the sole goal of helping all children receive a quality education. Much of my career has been spent working in urban districts where generations of low-income, minority children have been forced to attend violent, chronically failing schools. In many communities, our public-education system has returned to separate and unequal. Access to a quality education is the civil rights battle of our generation.
Before my tenure as superintendent of the Philadelphia School District, I had always believed the best way to improve access to quality education for low-income families was to implement needed reforms from within the education system. Recently, I’ve come to a sad realization. Real reform will never come from within the system because too many powers that be (the teachers’ union, politicians, consultants, vendors, etc.) have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo that is failing our children.
Investment in Quality Education for All Students
Meaningful education reform must be forced upon the system from outside by giving parents of all income levels real choices about where their children go to school. That requires giving parents comprehensive school choice that includes an expanded charter-school system and a voucher program for low-income parents with children trapped in a failing school….
(For the complete post, goto the following web address: http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20111017_School_change_must_come_from_outside.html)
Originally posted, School Change Must Come from Outside by Arlene Ackerman,October 17, 2011 at Philly.com