With regards to expenses, I think that you are correct. In fact, I will post those results early next week with some comments.

They must hate DonorsChoice where you can help public teachers who don’t even have enough money to buy supplies, while rich towns have plentyh of money to donate millions to their own fancy schools.

I can see the conservative interest in improving public education when I go to the websites of red states especially in the south. Many schools in the south are still de facto segregated, so they don’t need to bribe blacks to stay in filthy noisy asthma-inducing old inner cities. The bottom ten states for poverty are red states. Many of them have no school choice at all. They also have the highest drop out rates in the country. What conservatives want is private “Christian” schools for whites teaching creationism paid for by my tax dollars. Why would anyone listen to a party that produces the worst education and are the poorest states? Republicans are really good at one thing: propaganda for their ideology.

How would one promote an event?

Respectfully,

-bv

Just go look at Mississipi’s web site. There are far more undereducated blacks in Mississippi than any urban area. In Mississippi there is NO “school choice” – they have other methods to keep segregation alive.

A teacher only needs an associate’s degree in ….something. And the salary is $26,000 a year, not enough to live on.

YOu want your state to look like Mississippi the red state that is the poorest in America and where the largest employer is GOVERNMENT? Vote Republican!

Credit Recovery is traditionally defined as a way to “recover” credit for a course that a student was previously unsuccessful in earning academic credit towards graduation. It differs greatly from programs that allow students to earn “first time credit” in that students having already satisfied seat time requirements for a course in which they were unsuccessful can focus on earning credit based on competency of the content standards for the particular course. Credit Recovery programs, in general, have a primary focus of helping students stay in school and graduate on time

We contact the school and present them with a letter of enrollment verification. This letter does two things. It authorizes us to request the transcripts and automatically withdraws the student.
It also alerts the school and the district so the parent does not face truancy issues.

Do you know of any middle-schools or high schools that can benefit or use our online curriculum?

Bill

So they want to bribe minorities to stay in dirty, unhealthy, noisy, dangerous inner cities and stay out of their prestine, healthy, green, suburbs where there is no epidemic of asthma because the air isn’t polluted.

Beware of Republicans suddenly pretending they give a damn about minorities.

Anyone who falls for this is a moron or a racist.

One more question for you: Can you tell us about your credit-recovery program?

I posted a response to your request and had not seen a response.

I wondered why you asked me all those questions. Did you get a chance to review the web site?

In addition I posted an event. How long does it take to appear on the web site?

I look forward to your reply.

Bill

Where do the students live? The Student reside across the United States.

Do you have students in New York City? Yes we do have a considerable amount of Students in NY.

How much is tuition? 6th-8th grade $1195 – 9th $1195.00 – 10th $1295.00 – 11th 1395.00 – 12th $1495.00

Who are the teachers? Certified teachers working, licensed and certified in their respective states in public or private schools.

What grades? etc. etc… 6th-8th 9th-12th

In addition we provide – AP & Honors Courses. We also have over 150 elective and career path academies.

Welcome to GothamSchools! I am very curious about the virtual private school you run. What’s the name of the school? Where do the students live? Do you have students in New York City? How much is tuition? Who are the teachers? What grades? etc. etc…

Elizabeth

Two places you can find information are:

1. The New York City Charter School Center website: http://www.nycchartercenter.org/. They have lots of useful information including guidebooks.

2. The New York Charter School Association website: http://www.nycsa.org/StartACharterSchool.html.

I’m new to this forum and to the NYC education system. I would like some feedback on how to start a Charter school in NY. What is needed? I am re-posting my recent post since no one respond. Can anyone here make some suggestions?

Hi, I’d really appreciate some feedback regarding this post. We run a online virtual private school. We currently have 1000 students enrolled and are struggling to stay afloat. Our school will be providing charter schools and after school programs with an online curriculum. We would like to start our own private school. How do we go about doing this? How do we get funding or sponsoring.

Thanks

Thanks for your comments. I tend to agree with you. To be clear, I purposefully attempted to write this post in a style that was free of my opinions or analysis of the matter. I hope to have some posts that people can use for factual reference. In these cases, I think it might be good to leave out my interpretation. Maybe it is just boring!?

I do think you have this right. To me, the difference seems significant but not huge. (I am not making a statistical statement at all!)

Thanks for the new details. I just want to point out for those following along that according to your data, KIPP and Achievement First get on average about $500-700 more per pupil in philanthropic dollars than the average NYC charter school. The average school figure is $1,654 per pupil, whereas KIPP averages $2,123 per pupil and Achievement First averages $2,346.

I have this right, don’t I? Isn’t this a pretty big deal?

Elizabeth

I’m really interested in what you said about the funding forum – “a major funder indicated that charters didnt need any more innovation because they already had KIPP.” Seems like you really disagree with that notion. But KIPP teachers and principals have told me that they are innovating even inside the KIPP umbrella. I recently visited a KIPP school where the principal said he is free to form his own culture, especially with the cooperation of the regional network.

Do you have a different impression? Could you give some examples of mom-and-pop charter schools that should be getting more support?

Elizabeth