Wendy Kloiber

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Wendy Kloiber commented on Why Charter Schools? Hi Su - thanks for viewing/commenting. I met Jim Lee at the WI Charter School Conference this year and had a really interesting conversation with him about project-based ed management software that some of the schools he works with are using. As for a technology/innovation school - I’m not out to try to start one. (I may not try to start any - really depends on the level of agreement that can be cultivated.) I think the first step might be a charter school study group that can look at the process and some of the things other districts have done before deciding what model or models would fit here. My own inclinations as a mom tend toward a project-based learning/place-based curriculum school, like the kind described in the book that Peg Smith gave her board members: The Big Picture, by Dennis Littky. Look forward to meeting you in person! Wendy 7 months ago
Wendy Kloiber commented on Why Charter Schools? Hi Stephanie - thanks for reading. To answer, I think a charter school would have to define a size - a space it could operate in, and a number of students it expected to serve - and then those slots would be available on a first-come/first-serve basis to in-district students first. If more students applied than a school had slots for, by state law you have to hold a lottery to see who gets in. At the conference I went to the DPI was very clear: open enrollment applies to a district; not to a particular school within a district. So students from outside the district could open enroll, but with no guarantees of getting a slot at a charter (unless the district decides to offer those guarantees, which is an option.). One of the frustrating things about the enrollment law is that there is no exception to the lottery rule for children of charter school founders. It’s possible in WI (and has happened to other parents) to spend years volunteering to set up a charter, only to find that your kid’s name isn’t pulled out of the lottery so you go on a waiting list.. Heartbreaking to imagine. I think the lottery laws need some exceptions! 7 months ago