"And picture that paper over there as the bad guy. " He nods at an assignment on his desk at the Derrick Thomas Academy charter school in Kansas City, Missouri.
They studied other charter schools, including a similar Chinese immersion one in Minnesota.
"When we look at our cases where children are sent away from schools because of disabilities," she said, "there are a disproportionate number of calls about charter schools."
Though private and charter schools may still make a point of it (as of discipline, and uniforms), many public-school systems are abandoning cursive altogether.
But because of a lawsuit affecting charter schools in New York City, it is not clear if Alexander's current school, Harlem Success Academy, will open after the summer break.
A study by the Boston Foundation shows that charter schools do much better than other Boston public schools.
That is why the caps placed by many states and localities on the number of charter schools-mainly under pressure from teachers unions - should be removed, as some cities are doing.
K12 was paid $1.5 million last year to provide the curriculum, technology and management services for the charter school, and is on the hook to the school for any claims or challenges to its validity.
Newark, one of America's grimmer cities, also has one of the country's highest concentrations of charter schools and is on course to have more.
At the Yu Ying charter school in Washington, all classes for 200 students in prekindergarten through second grade are taught in Chinese and English on alternate days.
The cynical wonder if he is merely emulating his rivals' support for charter schools.
We see America's character in Dr. Tony Recasner, a principal who opened a new charter school from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina.
The stimulus offered more than $4 billion in grants for states that made certain changes, such as lifting caps on the number of charter schools and devising new ways to evaluate teachers.
Sceptics of America's fairly new experiment of this kind, privately funded charter schools, think that politicians are "too invested" in them to close them if they fail.
But it will also gather a mountain of data on the performance of every charter school, and pupil, in Newark.
But he also speaks eloquently about introducing more merit pay and creating more charter schools.
Ten states still ban charter schools.
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