When public charter schools were created in Michigan statute more than 25 years ago, lawmakers created more than just a new type of school. They created a new educational practice: authorizing.
Recently, the Michigan Council of Charter School Authorizers partnered with the National Charter Schools Institute and Michigan Department of Education to share a video examining what it means to be an authorizer in Michigan.
In the face of a global pandemic, charter schools throughout the state have gone above and beyond to continue serving their students and communities.
Today, we sat down with Amy Burdick, Food Director for North Star Academy in Marquette, Michigan, to learn about how her school has continued to provide essential meals to its students.
Twenty-five years. That’s how long it’s been since Michigan’s charter school law was first enacted. That’s a quarter century of schools that put student needs first. Schools producing results that matter. Schools thriving under the toughest accountability of any public school in Michigan—or even across the U.S.
When public charter schools were created in Michigan statute more than 25 years ago, lawmakers created more than just a new type of school. They created a new educational practice: authorizing.
Recently, the Michigan Council of Charter School Authorizers partnered with the National Charter Schools Institute and Michigan Department of Education to share a video examining what it means to be an authorizer in Michigan.
In the face of a global pandemic, charter schools throughout the state have gone above and beyond to continue serving their students and communities.
Today, we sat down with Amy Burdick, Food Director for North Star Academy in Marquette, Michigan, to learn about how her school has continued to provide essential meals to its students.
Twenty-five years. That’s how long it’s been since Michigan’s charter school law was first enacted. That’s a quarter century of schools that put student needs first. Schools producing results that matter. Schools thriving under the toughest accountability of any public school in Michigan—or even across the U.S.
The story in this week’s New York Times on charter schools in Michigan represents advocacy journalism at its most biased and inflammatory. Not only does the story blatantly misstate many of the facts about Michigan’s charter public school sector and the institutions that authorize them, it also willfully takes the entire story out of context, misrepresenting the broader picture of school improvement and growth statewide.
There is an expression that rings true throughout the entire world. It is that actions have consequences. What you do, or fail to do, today will impact your tomorrow. Students who don’t study will fail classes. Employees who don’t work will face repercussions at work.
How can we know this? We know it because that is how the world works. You take a test, you earn the consequences of your performance. Students across the globe understand and work with it every day. So do adults and businesses, only the stakes are typically much higher.
