Teachers unions spend, lose big on midterm elections

dbphoenix said:
You mean like charter schools?
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Oh... you don't like those nasty charter schools.... you know.... the ones like Raleigh Charter that are ranked in the top 30 high schools in the U.S. and have thousands of applicants each year for a few hundred spots. Yeah, you don't like Charter schools, eh? Where most of the educational innovations come out of that improve K-12 education in the U.S.

What a shame? Why do you hate the students?
 
gwb-trading said:
Oh... you don't like those nasty charter schools.... you know.... the ones like Raleigh Charter that are ranked in the top 30 high schools in the U.S. and have thousands of applicants each year for a few hundred spots. Yeah, you don't like Charter schools, eh? Where most of the educational innovations come out of that improve K-12 education in the U.S.

What a shame? Why do you hate the students?
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Follow the money.
 
dbphoenix said:
Follow the money.
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I did. The majority of Charter schools involve transparent well-run non-profit organizations.

I will agree that you have a case in regards to the for-profit charter schools, especially the national level ones or the on-line ones.
 
gwb-trading said:
Oh... you don't like those nasty charter schools.... you know.... the ones like Raleigh Charter that are ranked in the top 30 high schools in the U.S. and have thousands of applicants each year for a few hundred spots. Yeah, you don't like Charter schools, eh? Where most of the educational innovations come out of that improve K-12 education in the U.S.

What a shame? Why do you hate the students?
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He doesn't know the first thing about charter schools. Charter schools are public schools here in SC and unlike many of the public schools they have a board that is responsible for the execution of the plan to insure the school succeeds. I was asked to run for a position a few years ago as a non-parent, or a 'community member'. And this was in one of the high poverty areas that is now doing great with a roughly 50-50 mix of black and white kids.
 
DHOHHI said:
He doesn't know the first thing about charter schools. Charter schools are public schools here in SC and unlike many of the public schools they have a board that is responsible for the execution of the plan to insure the school succeeds. I was asked to run for a position a few years ago as a non-parent, or a 'community member'. And this was in one of the high poverty areas that is now doing great with a roughly 50-50 mix of black and white kids.
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Just curious, what do they teach the age of Earth to be?
 
DHOHHI said:
He doesn't know the first thing about charter schools. Charter schools are public schools here in SC and unlike many of the public schools they have a board that is responsible for the execution of the plan to insure the school succeeds. I was asked to run for a position a few years ago as a non-parent, or a 'community member'. And this was in one of the high poverty areas that is now doing great with a roughly 50-50 mix of black and white kids.
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North Carolina has a similar experience. For years, the state had a cap of 100 total Charter schools in our state. Recently that cap was lifted and we are up to 114.

The pay for teachers in charters schools comes from public funds administered by the state. The care of the charter facility comes from private funds. Every charter school has a board of community members providing oversight to the administration of the school. Similar to public schools, K-12 charters fall under the oversight of the Department of Public Instruction in North Carolina.

The state has a public website that provides detailed information of the educational results at all the public schools and charters, and allows people to compare them.

Generally the charter schools in our state outperform public schools with the same student demographics. The top ranked high schools in our state that make national rankings are all charter schools.
 
gwb-trading said:
I don't know... what do the top 100 high schools in the United State teach the age of the Earth to be... over 70% of the top high schools are charters.
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If they're "top" high schools then it sure isn't "4000 years". Thankfully.
 
Ricter said:
Typo. Good job going nazi on it.
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Oblate spheroid.

At least that is what is taught in public schools in SoCal. Not sure what they teach them up in the great northern-central wasteland but it couldn't be worse than the Los Angeles Unified School District.

I *love* geodesy and wrote an earth model that is getting some use around the government and a handful of universities. Its just a WGS-84 ellipsoid layered with EGM-96 geoid-height-above-ellipsoid and then layered with high-resolution terrain-height-above-geoid and finally textured with high-resolution satellite imagery or various Terminal Area Charts in a 3D pan, tilt and zoom environment. Something like Google Earth but with military-grade terrain and image resolutions.

When I first got it all working I spent about 2 weeks sitting rapt at my desk exploring the Grand Canyon.

Sorry for the hijack.
 
377OHMS said:
Not sure what they teach them up in the great northern-central wasteland...
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Me neither, I went to school in the US (and some of its bases around the world).

I think "spherical" supplies sufficient contrast with "flat". : )
 
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