Monday, September 25, 2017
Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium
Independent charter schools view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time.
But some backers of the model say they have “lost the narrative” to bigger networks who sometimes attract headlines for allegedly harsh discipline policies or clashes with districts over space.
Now, a group of these independent schools are planning their first national symposium to improve their image and plot a future course.
The Independent Charter School Symposium expects to gather about 350 educators and advocates in Queens on Oct. 12 and 13. . .