News Brief

10/26/12

Effort Lets Districts Be More Like Charter Schools

Houston Chronicle (10/26/12) Shreiner, Bruce

A new education initiative in Kentucky to be launched in the 2013-14 school year will let school districts apply for permission to operate more like charter schools. The move would free school districts from certain laws and regulations and give them more flexibility with curriculum, instruction, funding, and school scheduling, but in return, they would have to bolster student performance. Rules for the initiative -- which aims to improve college and career preparedness -- are sill being finalized, but the charter school status could apply to some or every school in the district. Seventy percent of the teachers in a given school would have to approve the move before a school could be added to the district's application. State Education Commissioner Terry Holliday recently said in a speech to local school officials that the goal is to promote classroom innovations. "We want you outside of the box. We want you to not even think about the box," he said.

 

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