The Georgia Supreme Court stood by an earlier decision which deemed the Georgia Charter Schools Commission unconstitutional, a move which could potentially close the doors of at least 16 of the state’s charter schools. The Huffington Post reports: Supporters say charter schools provide more choices to families that feel underserved by local schools. Critics assert […]
Charter schools have been in the news a lot due to the a lawsuit filed by the Teacher’s Union and NAACP, against the New York Department of Education to stop them from closing public schools and replacing them with charter schools. Charter schools have the potential to by very good but also have the potential […]
NEW YORK-NAACP head Hazel Duke recently sent an email to a parent who wrote her urging the NAACP to drop a lawsuit against the Department Of Education for closing schools and opening charter schools. Gothamist reports: “You are not a member of the NAACP and don’t understand that you are doing the business of slave […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 26 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Last week, IPS vowed not to enroll students living in IPS neighborhoods who start school at charter schools then transfer back to IPS. To see the scope of this problem, WTLC-AM1310’s Afternoons with Amos program requested official enrollment data from the Indiana Department […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 39 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Eli Lilly Vice-President and former mayor Bart Peterson and The Mind Trust’s David Harris talked education with Afternoons with Amos listeners. Lilly has given $2.5 million to The Mind Trust’s Grow What Works effort to improve and encourage educational innovation in Indianapolis. Listen above as […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 44 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Having cut 350 personnel, including over 250 teachers. and more than $20 million from his budget, IPS Superintendent Dr. Eugene White appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain the cuts. Plus, Dr. White explained a new IPS policy where students living in the district who […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 55 Minutes. Audio ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Supt. of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett had a lively, detailed, passionate discussion on education with Amos and Afternoons with Amos listeners. Dr. Bennett talked about pending state takeover of some twenty schools in Indiana, including some in IPS. The discussion also covered schools […]
Has the Superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools, a system that has opposed the expansion of charter schools, now changed his mind about them? IPS Superintendent Dr. Eugene White joined fifteen other leaders of major urban school districts, including controversial Washington, DC Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rhee, in signing a commentary to be published in Sunday’s […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 14 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. The two newest charter schools in Indianapolis are unique in the nation as they are former Catholic elementary schools that have become public schools. The two inner city new charter schools are Andrew Academy (formerly St. Andrews/St. Rita) and Padua Academy (formerly St. Anthony). The […]
Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. During the live broadcast from the State House, Afternoons with Amos took time to talk live with Indianapolis native Kevin Chavous, one of the country’s leading education choice advocates and early proponent of charter schools.
Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Two Indianapolis, inner-city Catholic elementary schools, St. Andrews in Haughville and St. Andrews/St. Rita in the Forest Manor area, could become secular, public charter schools. The bombshell news was discussed on Afternoons with Amos with Gene Otinsky of the Indianapolis Catholic Archdiocese and Karega Rausch of the […]
Audio Clip Attached. Audio©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was interviewed on Afternoons with Amos, the first Obama Administration Cabinet member to appear on the award winning talk show. Secretary Duncan talked with Amos about the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top initiative, charter schools, the problem of Black youth placed in special […]
