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	Alberta Charter Schools Provide Choices \| Daily Policy Digest \| NCPA
		Alberta is Canada's only province with charter schools -- autonomous, publicly funded schools organized by like-minded parents and educators to provide choices for their children's education.
		According to surveys, 83 percent of charter school parents volunteer in their children's school, and 82 percent intend to have their children remain in a charter school.
		They uniformly report that their charter school is better than the previous school their children attended and that their children demonstrate improved academic performance, self-confidence, and satisfaction in their learning.
	www.ncpa.org /sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=8015 (375 words)

	Charter school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charter schools are commonly founded as schools for students that may not be served well by traditional public schools in their communities (such as pregnant teens or teen parents, drop-outs, and other at-risk populations) or those with special educational needs.
		The first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1991, and as of the 2004-2005 school year, approximately 3,300 charter schools are in operation in 40 states and the District of Columbia, enrolling nearly 1 million students (National Charter School Directory, The Center for Education Reform).
		Charter schools tended to be somewhat more racially diverse, and to enroll slightly fewer students with special needs and limited-English-proficient students than the average schools in their state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charter_schools (2671 words)

	Canadian Charter Schools Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Alberta is unique, home to all ten of the charter schools in Canada, and, as of 1998 the only Canadian province to legislate them.
		All this is after a charter school has been approved and opened; achieving that status requires enough support and demand from parents, students and teachers to change the existing educational system.
		Charter schools still teach the provincial curriculum but the difference is in how they teach that material.
	www.charterschools.ca /news-feb32003.htm (755 words)

	Education in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While about one out of ten Canadians do not have any high school education and only one in seven have a university degree, this is changing rapidly, partly due to changes in the labour market that require people to have a high school diploma and, in many cases, a university degree.
		Ontario, Alberta, and certain cities in Saskatchewan are the exception to this, as they still maintain publicly funded Separate district school boards (usually Catholic and occasionally Protestant).
		Alberta charter schools - Currently, this is the only province to have charter schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Education_in_Canada (1405 words)

	AUTHOR: Michael Wronkovich
		Several charter states amended their laws -- two increased the number of charters than can be granted; two expanded the number of agencies allowed to grant charters; one authorized additional new charter schools; two authorized funds for capital improvement needs; and one increased the length of the charter term.
		The contention of charter school advocates is that the mere existence of charter schools in an area has the effect of stimulating reform.
		Nearly seven of the ten of the charter schools had a specifically stated vision statement that was significantly different from the schools in their immediate area.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/hup/wilkinson/charter.html (3022 words)

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		Another criticism of charter schools is that they have the effect of fragmenting education, and thus weakening the social cohesion and sharing of experience that students from various backgrounds can receive as part of a single public system.
		As with charter schools, proponents of the voucher system believe that it empowers parents and provides them with more choices in terms of selecting the kind of education they think is best-suited to their children’s needs.
		School administrators who endorsed the program emphasized its voluntary nature, and pointed to the financial advantages that would accrue to the local schools from their participation in it.
	www.cbc.ca /newsinreview/nov98/educat/educat.htm (2445 words)

	NAPBIRT Repair Schools
		At repair schools the curriculum and learning are highly structured and the pace is rigorous, this in order to train technicians within their one or two year time-frames.
		Repair schools work to train with current tools and techniques and continually improve instruction and learning, most employing advisory committees to ensure that the training offered is valid and of quality.
		Because of this, it is common to refer to repair school graduates as “advanced apprentices”.
	www.napbirt.org /napbirt-repair-schools.asp (1469 words)

	The Home School Court Report Vol. XVIII, No. 1 -- Charter Schools: The Price Is Too High
		The idea is that if public charter schools draw enough students away from regular public schools, the resulting lack of funds will force public schools to come up with creative alternatives to bring students (and the funding that comes with them) back into the system.
		Home school parents originally fought to be separate from the public schools in order to have the right to choose the curriculum that they believe would be best for their children.
		The soul of home schooling has its foundation built on the incredible sacrifices of many parents who risked all in order to win the right to be free from suffocating government control and to be free to teach their children according to God's ways and in obedience to His commands.
	www.hslda.org /courtreport/V18N1/V18N101.asp (3376 words)

	SAEE : Media Releases : Canadian Charter Schools Study Released
		Canadian Charter Schools at the Crossroads provides extensive profiles of nine charter schools, including analysis of the views of teachers, parents, students, and board members on the educational programs and operations of their school.
		The report notes the support network for charter schools is very thin, and that there is little sharing of charter school practices and/or innovations.
		School districts are singled out in the report for their general reluctance to work with charter schools, approve new applications or renew existing school charters.
	www.saee.ca /mediareleases/E_013_LON.php (472 words)

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	www.abjobmatch.com /employers-Industry-Alberta.htm (720 words)

	EDUCATION CRISIS IN ALBERTA 1998
		The Alberta Teachers' Association, an outspoken critic of the province's Tories, is praising the ruling party for passing a resolution in favour of limiting class sizes.
		School administrators should receive a new set of safety guidelines in January to help them avoid sports injuries like the one that resulted last week in a $4-million award to a young woman paralysed in a gymnastics accident.
		Alberta Education, Alberta Health and Alberta Community Development, in partnership with a consortium of physical education and injury control organizations, are nearing completion on a document called Alberta Physical Education Safety Guidelines.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5202/abedcrisis98.html (4120 words)

	Inroads: Lessons for Canada from Sweden's schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Private schools, which enrolled less than 1 per cent of Sweden's school children, were replaced by a system of tuition-free public schools (fristaende skola) providing community-driven alternatives to existing municipal schools.
		As private schooling is available only to wealthy Canadians and those prepared to make financial sacrifices, we do not know how many families would exercise this option were it available within our public system without the burden of tuition, nor do we know what impact this would have on the system.
		Nonmunicipal schools generally admit students in the order applications are received and may not refuse to enrol a student except in cases where there are great costs for special needs programs for which the municipality has not provided funds.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4014/is_200307/ai_n9277609 (1275 words)

	Trends & Issues, School Choice - Research and Evaluation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Charter school officials advise others interested in opening their own school to establish a clear vision, mission, and philosophy, and to devote plenty of time to planning.
		Charter school progress in the District of Columbia suffers from breakdowns in communication and some bureaucratic tensions, but some of the tension is a predictable and perhaps unavoidable offshoot of the deliberately ambiguous nature of the charter concept.
		Data were gathered using phone surveys, repeated field visits to a sample of charter schools and their surrounding districts, student achievement tests administered at a sample of charter schools, the collection of existing student assessments for a sample of charter schools and for other public schools, and other methods.
	eric.uoregon.edu /trends_issues/choice/selected_abstracts/research.html (12817 words)

	Trends & Issues, School Choice - General Reviews and Position Statements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Others feel that charter schools are a stalking horse for private school vouchers and privatization, part of an attempt to undermine public education, or an abandonment of efforts to reform public education.
		Charter schools cannot offer truly innovative programs because they remain bound to public authorities; they have to be more independent and less regulated than they are in many states.
		Charter schools are based on the belief that a public school can serve students more effectively when freed from most state and local regulations.
	cepm.uoregon.edu /trends_issues/choice/selected_abstracts/reviews.html (11717 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Written and narrated by distinguished education writer Andrew Nikiforuk, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, this 26 minute DVD profiles three Alberta charter schools and provides a wealth of information about these schools that few people are aware of.
		“First and foremost, charter schools are PUBLIC schools that do not charge tuition or select their pupils.
		Chartering allows educators to work ‘outside the box’ in order to improve the learning of their students.”
	www.societyforqualityeducation.org /dox/MediaReleaseMar8-04.htm (234 words)

	Why Canada IS Worth SAVING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Finally, education levels and literacy rates in Canada are among the highest in the world, a product of quality public schooling and affordable post-secondary education.
		Alberta's Bill 11 is the most recent and visible assault against this universality.
		Everyone can celebrate and rejoice in their culture and heritage through parades, all religious occasions and schools to learn the language their parents or grandparents speak.
	www.canadianactionparty.ca /MainPages/cwsEssays.asp?Language=English (15840 words)

	Scheduling Software for School and University Timetables
		In some schools, courses can be offered in more than one section (i.e., different instructors may offer the same course at different times) and a student scheduling package helps the user decide which students should be allocated to each section to minimize student conflicts and balance section sizes.
		Currently thousands of schools and universities of varying sizes (15-11,000 students) use Mimosa in all parts of the world.
		It is so flexible that it can be applied in all kinds of institutions and schools, from primary schools to universities and from vocational schools to colleges.
	www.mimosasoftware.com (1478 words)

	Alabama School information by City: A-Y
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		GreatSchools.net: Elementary, middle and high school information for public, private and charter schools nationwide.
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	www.greatschools.net /modperl/cities/AL (44 words)

	Schools and School Boards
		Access a number of school administration publications that are of particular interest to school boards and administrators.
		Find school year operating schedules for public, separate, francophone and charter schools.
		Find information on the role of school boards in Alberta and the Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA).
	www.edc.gov.ab.ca /ei/maps (127 words)

	Spike2000.com Cool School Page
		C.R. Judd Public School - C.R. Judd Public School advocates and values a learner-focused, educational community that enables students to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to succeed in a technological society.
		Florence MacDougall Community School - Florence MacDougall Community School is located in Northern Alberta one and a half hours from the Northwest Territories border.
		Mary's School, Fort Vermilion, Alberta - St. Mary's school is located in Alberta's oldest community Fort Vermilion.
	www.spike2000.com /coolschool (558 words)

	Welcome to the Minnesota State High School League!
		Points are awarded to schools based on their success in post-season tournament play.
		Other Class AA schools finishing in the top 10 were Mounds View with 666 points; Stillwater Area with 656 points; Burnsville with 648 points; Edina with 579 points; Benilde-St. Margaret's with 524 points; Apple Valley with 512 points; Eastview with 484 points; and Roseville Area with 483 points.
		Each school will also receive a replica of the Cup to keep for permanent display in the school.
	www.mshsl.org /mshsl (1716 words)

	Alberta Education
		Location: Alberta Government Home > Education Home > Kindergarten to Grade 12 > Authorities and Schools
		Foundations for the Future Charter Academy Charter School Society
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	www.education.gov.ab.ca /ei/schauth/lookup.asp?type=charter (96 words)

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