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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Charter Schools "Co-Locate" with Public Schools and Tear Them Apart
http://www.alternet.org/education/damages-co-locationFor more than 30 years each, Cheryl Smith-Vincent and Cheryl Ortega have shared a passion for teaching public school in Southern California. Smith-Vincent teaches third grade at Miles Avenue Elementary School in Huntington Park; before retiring, Ortega taught kindergarten at Logan Street Elementary School in Echo Park. Both women have been jolted by experiences with a little-known statewide policy that requires traditional public schools to share their facilities with charter schools. Ortega says she has seen charter-school children warned against greeting non-charter students who attend the same campus. Smith-Vincent reports that she and her students were pushed out of their classroom prior to a round of important student tests just to accommodate a charter school that needed the space.
It was extremely disruptive, Smith-Vincent says of the incident.
The practice of housing a traditional public school and a charter school on the same campus is known as co-location. Charters are publicly funded yet independently operated, and are intended to encourage innovation and improve student performance. Under Proposition 39, a school-funding ballot initiative adopted by California voters in 2000, charter schools were given the right to use empty classrooms and share in underutilized public school facilities.
Proponents of the measure, including the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), claim that it ensures that all public school students, including those enrolled in charter schools, share equally in school district facilities. But critics contend that co-locating siphons key resources from the already-underfunded traditional public schools, depriving students of playground space, library time and other resources.
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How Charter Schools "Co-Locate" with Public Schools and Tear Them Apart (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2013
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HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)1. kr. it's a horrible practice & it's had horrible results in nyc. basically the charters take over
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)2. Injecting a parasite to kill the host.
The system, not the kids.
GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)3. Exactly.
It couldn't have been said better.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)4. Yes.