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Star Tribune: 7/19/2011Charter Schools Facing Budget Cuts Due To ShutdownCBS: 7/19/2011Charter schools seek borrowing help to deal with school aid shift, but odds are slimMinn Post. 7/19/2011State holdback of funds will kick charter school especially hardMinnPost. July 19, 2011Charters school advocates want exeption from payment delayMPR News. July 18, 2011
Schools likely to bear brunt of budget fixStar Trib. July 09, 2011New charters for a new schoolMinnCAN. May 26, 2011 Charter schools hit by funding shiftTar Tribune. April 15, 2011 Press Release: Charter School Partners launches new school leader fellowshipMarch 23, 2011New alternative teacher licensing law under scrutinyCBS Minnesota. March 7, 2011Minnesota schools-reform debates enter more complicated phaseMinnPost. January 25, 2011A New era of possibility could lead to educational equity in Minnesota by Al FanMinnPost. January 31, 2011Two charter schools receive Walton Family Foundation start-up grantsCSP Press Release. November 17, 2010MAPs help charter schools see which ones are raising student performanceMinnPost. November 15th, 2010. Al Fan: Waiting for Super ChartersPioneer Press. November 11, 2010.CSP Announces "Closing the Gap Schools"Minneapolis, MN . July 19, 2010. Charter School Partners today announced its first annual Closing the Gap schools list in which eight out of ten of the highest performing public schools in the state serving the neediest children in poverty are charter schools.Coming charter school contraction hailed as positive step for the Minnesota movementMinnPost. August 12, 2010.
Morgan Brown Joins CSPMinneapolis. MN. August, 2010
Morgan Brown, who most recently served as Assistant Commissioner at the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), has joined Charter School Partners (charterschoolpartners.org) as its Director of School Improvement.Al Fan: TiZA's success with students overshadows controversyStar Tribune, July 30, 2010
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA), with campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine, has once again proven that it is the top-performing Minnesota school serving students in poverty, among the nation's best in closing the achievement gap.In search of the 'secret sauce': Educators dissect how 'beat the odds' schools successful raise test scoresBy Beth Hawkins - MinnPost, July 12, 2010
These days whenever someone in K-12 education manages to vault the yawning achievement gap, a quiet stampede ensues among policymakers hoping to pinpoint what went right and graft it onto every failing school in the country.Al Fan: Close the Achievement Gap!By Al Fan. -- St. Paul Pioneer Press. January 29, 2010.
In recent months we have again seen a series of sensational headlines about the crisis in Minnesota’s charter schools. Sensation aside, several legitimate facilities issues were identified.Minnesota’s Charter Schools – (To Date) An Unfulfilled PromiseBy Al Fan, Executive Director, Charter School Partners, June 15, 2009
Eighteen years after the founding of the nation's first charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota's charter school community is at a crossroads. Minnesota clearly has a number of high-quality charter schools but there is reason for concern.Al Fan: The Next Step for Quality Schools - Quality. No ExcusesBy Al Fan - Updated: 06/03/2009 06:25:25 PM CDT
Eighteen years after the founding of the nation's first charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota's charter school community is at a crossroads. Minnesota clearly has a number of high-quality charter schools but there is reason for concern.Al Fan: Harlem Educator Wows Minnesota NiceBy AL FAN - (Created: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 1:00 PM CDT)
Last week, Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO, had more than 1,000 Minnesotans spellbound when describing his remarkable journey to eliminate the racial and poverty achievement gap in one of American's most challenging urban environments.
Al Fan: Minnesota 2020 Report is Politically MotivatedWinona Daily News, June 6, 2009
Al Fan: Entenza’s Minnesota 2020 Report is politically motivated Completely bogus. Political hit job. Specious. Fabricated out of whole cloth. |
