A short note from today's Globe.
"Six Massachusetts charter schools* were among 21 nationwide singled out for recognition yesterday by a national nonprofit that analyzes charter school achievement. The Effective Practice Incentive Community, or EPIC, grant program honored Community Day Charter Public School in Lawrence, Boston Preparatory Charter Public School in Hyde Park, Roxbury Preparatory Charter School in Roxbury, Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, MATCH Charter Public School in Boston, and Prospect Hill Academy Upper School in Cambridge. The organization will give individual principals, teachers, and instructional staff from the schools awards totaling an estimated $735,000. EPIC considered 144 schools for the award."
EPIC is a program of New Leaders for New Schools that distributes U.S. Department of Education TIF (Teacher Incentive Fund) money. TIF is the same Federal program that independently funds Edward W. Brooke Charter School's performance bonus program (which you can read more about here.)
According to the NLNS website, "EPIC award-winning schools are divided into two categories: Gold-gain schools have the highest gain; Silver-gain schools have the next highest gain. In 2009, EPIC is awarding 21 schools and distributing roughly $1.9 million in awards. Awards were based on student gains between the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years."
2008-2009
Gold-gain schools in MA: Boston Prep and MATCH
Silver-gain schools in MA: Boston Collegiate, Community Day, Prospect Hill, Roxbury Prep
(Other MA participatants: Smith Leadership, Berkshire Arts and Tech, North Central Charter Essential, and Salem Academy)
2007-2008
Gold-gain schools in MA: Roxbury Prep and MATCH
Silver-gain schools in MA: Boston Collegiate, Community Day, Smith Leadership
(Other MA participatants: North Central Charter Essential)
*While these schools were singled out for their performance, it is important to note that only 10 out of 54 MA charter schools participate in EPIC's National Charter School Consortium.
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Iam surprised to see North Central Charter Essential even mentioned. Going from plain awful to just really really bad is not a way to promote interest in charter schools. I would hope others are doing a better job.
ReplyDeleteNCCECS participated in the program by allowing itself to be analyzed. They were not recognized for their performance.
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