Charter School Leadership Council Kicks Off National Campaign to Expand Charter Movement, Improve School Quality
U.S. Newswire › January 31, 2005
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The newly formed Charter School Leadership Council (CSLC) today announced an ambitious first- year agenda to focus the national charter movement on the dual goals of growth and quality, starting with the appointment of a high- level Task Force on Quality and Accountability to help raise the bar of charter school performance.
Council Chairman Howard Fuller said CSLC was launching its campaign at a critical moment for charter schools, which are independently run, publicly financed, and publicly accountable. After a decade of steady growth and positive results, the movement is facing serious challenges on many fronts: persistent inequities in funding and arbitrary caps on growth, intensified opposition from defenders of the status quo, and ongoing questions about academic performance, which have created doubts about the efficacy of the charter modelSee the full content of this document
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Charter School Leadership Council Kicks Off National Campaign to Expand Charter Movement, Improve School Quality
"The Charter School Leadership Council was formed to bring our large and diverse movement together to find practical answers to those pressing challenges," Fuller said. "In doing so, we cannot afford to di...
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