Toward Even Greater Service:
CSSC and Ten Charters Develop a Technology Consortium
A new technology service for charter schools is in development at the Charter School Service Center (CSSC).
Today in Indianapolis, charter school representatives met with Mike Huffman of the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) to discuss federally funded E-Rate benefits. The meeting was an initiative of the Charter School Service Center, whose primary purpose is to support Indiana Charter Schools and support the charter movement.
Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation (GEO Foundation) founder Kevin Teasley and CSSC Associate Director Melanie Dozier were joined by Michael Evans, Regional IT Director of Imagine Schools; Connie Monroe of Rural Community Academy; Evan Hawkins of the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School and Challenge Academy; and J.C. Lasmanis, Ph.D., of S.E.N.S.E. – representing a total of ten Indiana charter schools. [READ MORE]
“Cathedrals of Learning” Need Our Support, Not Systems, says Newark Mayor Cory Booker
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| From left, Former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson; Newark, NJ, Mayor Cory Booker; and former State Representative Carolene Mays. |
November 10, 2008 – Indianapolis, IN – “I’m not wedded to the idea of a school, but rather the idea of cathedrals of learning,” said Mayor Cory Booker today to a diverse crowd in Indianapolis of more than 150 legislators, educators, business owners, and philanthropists. “Instead of focusing on seat time, we need to be focused on achievement.”
Former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson joined Mayor Booker at the luncheon for a discussion of charter and traditional school issues led by former Indiana State Representative Carolene Mays, publisher of The Indianapolis Recorder, the state’s largest black-owned newspaper. [READ MORE]
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
Giving a Voice to Choice
By Russ Pulliam
Indianapolis Star
The ideal, pursued by political and community leaders from a range of backgrounds, is to provide all parents with a choice of schools for their children.
The idea first gained traction in Indianapolis in the early 1990s when then-state Sen. Louis Mahern proposed vouchers for low-income parents in Indianapolis Public Schools district so they could choose a public or private school.
As a candidate for mayor in 1991, Mahern promoted school choice in an uphill race against Republican Steve Goldsmith. He lost to Goldsmith, but his proposition has gained ground since then.
A few years later, the late civic leader J. Patrick Rooney created the CHOICE charitable trust to give several thousand IPS families a private scholarship option. [READ MORE]
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The GEO Foundation is launching a speakers bureau on charter schools and education.