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Hillsdale plans charter school
The Collegian Online ^ | 11/5/09 | Liz Essley

Posted on 11/19/2009 2:46:00 AM PST by Daisyjane69

Hillsdale College is getting into the public school business.

The college plans to establish a charter school in the near future and possibly create more, should the first prove a success, said administrators. They have not yet chosen a location for the first school.

"It is an opportunity to break the mold. The idea here is that we're going to seize upon the charter school concept to do something similar to what we do with our private school [Hillsdale Academy]," Associate Professor of Education Jon Fennell said.

(Excerpt) Read more at media.www.hillsdalecollegian.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conservativism; education
If you listen, you can hear liberal heads exploding. :)
1 posted on 11/19/2009 2:46:02 AM PST by Daisyjane69
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To: Daisyjane69

Michigan already has the fine National Hertiage Academy Charter Schools, I am curious will they start in MI and branch out or ???


2 posted on 11/19/2009 3:06:08 AM PST by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: Daisyjane69

We have a classical academy charter school in the next county. The kids are Hispanic and black, most of them are poverty level and they regularly beat the public schools in all subject areas.


3 posted on 11/19/2009 6:21:13 AM PST by goldi (')
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To: goldi

Thanks for your post.

If I were queen of the world I’d have Hillsdale put their charter school right in the middle of Bill Ayer’s contaminated, evil playground:

the South Side of Chicago

heh


4 posted on 11/19/2009 6:24:50 AM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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