Seems funny, really, teaching used to be so simple and the students ended up building things like Apollo moon landers and such. Now, we don’t even know how to teach the students and to build a Moon lander we have to reverse engineer what the graduates of one-room school houses did.

Funny, but sad.

I wonder what are the economic backgrounds of the students?  Anybody reading this is in Colorado know?

“With all this success, one wonders why Cesar Chavez Academy, and similar schools, are constantly struggling to overcome barriers laid in their way by local and state governments.

We can begin with the Colorado legislature. Both the House and Senate education committees have been run by staunch union ideologues, Sen. Sue Windels and Rep. Mike Merrifield.”
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Can we spell out NEA, boys and girls?  N—-E—-A.  That’s it!  What does NEA mean?  National Education Association.  Right!

What is the NEA?  A rights and benefits organization (i.e. labor union) for teachers that, in addition to bargaining for wages, benefits and working conditions, also helps to dictate curriculum content and influence local, state and federal education policies and lawmaking.

An all in one organization.  And it’s all for it’s self-serving leadership and the teachers and darn little for the students.

What is the NEA’s worst competitor?  Charter schools. 
Why?  Because they usually work well and too often ‘put the lie’ to the NEA’s propaganda.

#2 As stated Low-income. This however does not mean not able to think and learn. A, Edison America’s greatest inventer was not from a well off background and had limited schooling, but he never stopped learning.

“A. Edison America’s greatest inventer…..... had limited schooling, but he never stopped learning.”

Yes, but today he would have been one of the ABC kids and hated the very idea of anything that resembled “learning”.

I seem to remember that when this school started the chief controversy stemmed from the choice of the name.  Does anyone else remember that?

AnglicanFirst said it all.
NEA
The first and largest barrier to any correction in our education system.

Once upon a time, no one thought that education was possible without attention to the moral character of the student—in other words, the capacity to suffer to learn. It was Milton in “On Education” who famously said, “knowledge comes only from suffering.” Successful charter schools get this and the parents have to get it too.  We need to stop pretending there is some mystery to the problem of educating our kids.