Event Monday!

Please join me on Monday, August 1 at 5:45pm in the Main branch of the Louisville Free Public Library (301 York St, between 3rd and 4th just south of Broadway) for a screening of the powerful documentary, Waiting for "Superman". The film will start promptly at 6pm, and will be followed by 45 minutes of Q&A about public charter schools and Kentucky. We will be joined by Dr. Wayne Lewis, of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and Lauren Morgan, of Parents for Improving Kentucky Education (PIKE). I will represent the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and will facilitate the discussion, helping to answer questions when appropriate.

Please invite friends,neighbors, and anyone interested in learning more about charter schools or helping us attain a high quality public charter schools law for Kentucky. Water and light snacks will be provided.

I look forward to seeing you all Monday. 

Joel Adams

  

What Makes Charter Schools Work? Part 6

Educating our kids is an expensive process, and we should strive to be sure that the benefits of those expenditures are applied to public charter schools just as they are to all other public schools. In most states, charter schools struggle to help kids exceed expectations on an uneven playing field. Funding for education, at each level: local, state and federal, should follow each child regardless of what public school they choose to attend.

6) We Should Provide Equitable Funding to Public Charter Schools and Authorizing Entities

When a student transfers from one public school to another, the funding associated with that student follows him or her to the new public school. Public charter schools should receive state and local funds from the home school district of each student attending the school equal to the state and local portion of the per-pupil expenditures in the student’s home district, with federal funds distributed to a school as dictated by federal law. The state should also allow the authorizing entity of the public charter school (either their local school board or another entity) to retain an oversight fee to cover its costs in overseeing the school (e.g., 2% of a school’s per-pupil funding).

Funding all public educational opportunities equally is the fair and right thing to do for all Kentucky's kids.