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HeiressofBickworth

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2. I thought I remembered reading about difficulties
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:59 AM
Jun 2014

with this arrangement. See http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/nyregion/charters-public-schools-and-a-chasm-between.html?_r=0

NYT, May 11, 2014, Javier C. Hernandez:
But two decades since the schools began to appear, educators from both systems concede that very little of what has worked for charter schools has found its way into regular classrooms. Testy political battles over space and money, including one that became glaringly public in New York State this spring, have inhibited attempts at collaboration. The sharing of school buildings, which in theory should foster communication, has more frequently led to conflict.

And some charter schools have veered so sharply from the traditional model — with longer school years, armies of nonunion workers and flashy enrichment opportunities like trips to the Galápagos Islands — that their ideas are viewed as unworkable in regular schools.

In recent years, educational leaders, concerned about hostilities between the two types of schools, have worked to encourage warmer relations. In Tulsa, Okla., charter schools and district schools are working together to improve teaching quality. And in Spring Branch, Tex., charter school leaders are helping train district teachers and principals.


I think you'd have to learn more about how the arrangement is supposed to work in your school and then check the progress to see if they are meeting the goals of the space sharing agreement.

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