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March 22, 2016 – Legislative
The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS) President and CEO Dr. Darlene Chambers released the following statement in response to State Senator Joe Schiavoni’s proposed legislation introduced today addressing online charter schools:
“While there is room to create good policy to raise the level of student engagement in online schools, this legislation appears to have teachers use valuable instructional time to become seat time attendance trackers,” Dr. Chambers said.
“The proposals…
March 22, 2016 – Our Schools
The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS) President and CEO Dr. Darlene Chambers released the following statement today regarding the Innovation Ohio and OEA sponsored Know Your Charter Report:
“This report makes assumptions and conclusions on data that appears to be reverse-engineered to support the position that traditional school districts should receive funding for public charter school students who do not attend a school in that district,” Dr. Chambers said. “It is problematic…
March 7, 2016 – Our Schools
Columbus, OH– The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS) President and CEO Dr. Darlene Chambers released the following statement in response to the NAPCS Health of the Charter Public School Movement Report released March 7, 2016:
“This report offers evidence that there is great diversity in the school models of Ohio’s charter movement, which is truly serving those students who need and seek out educational options,” said Dr. Chambers. “Nearly 39 percent of the state’s charter schools…
March 7, 2016 – Our Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released the latest report evaluating the health of the charter public school movement in key states across the country. Ohio placed 13th in the rankings for several reasons, including the following:
In Ohio, a relatively high percentage of the state’s public schools are charters, showing a high demand for these innovative public school options.
In Ohio, charter public schools serve a higher percentage of racial and…
February 26, 2016 – Our Schools
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE–The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS) President and CEO Dr. Darlene Chambers made the following statement today regarding the just released Ohio State Report Cards:
“The report cards released this week for both traditional district and charter schools are overly complex, too late to be useful and are based on constantly shifting state assessment vendors,” said Dr. Darlene Chambers. “Ohio’s parents should take the recently released results with a grain of…
