{"id":17258,"date":"2013-02-22T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2013-02-22T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:30:48","slug":"more-on-the-growing-charter-school-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17258\/more-on-the-growing-charter-school-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Growing Charter School Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charterschoolstoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">5,277 charter schools serving 1.6 million K-12 students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But not all of them are <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/48-education\/1754-conservatives-should-embrace-charter-schools \" target=\"_blank\">urban minority, low-income<\/a> students.\u00a0 Some serve suburban middle class families looking for an alternative to the curriculum on tap in a traditional public school.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillsdale.edu\/seminars\/charterschool.asp \" target=\"_blank\">Hillsdale College<\/a> is spearheading a national campaign to create at least one charter school in every state with a classical education curriculum.\u00a0 Readers of the school\u2019s popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillsdale.edu\/news\/imprimis.asp \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Imprimus<\/em><\/a> publication won\u2019t be surprised to learn that that \u201cThese schools will be based on a classical liberal arts model and have a strong civics component that will equip students to understand and defend the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,\u201d according to the college\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>So far, three parent groups have partnered with Hillsdale to create this distinctive new brand of charter school in Georgia, New Mexico, and Texas.\u00a0 The Texas version, <a href=\"http:\/\/foundersclassical.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Founders Classical Academy<\/a> in Lewisville, began construction in 2012, and expects to start classes this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsdale\u2019s involvement shows that the real genius of the charter school option is that it allows any community of families, regardless of socio-economic status, to opt out of a public school system overburdened by bureaucracy, unions, and questionable curriculum standards.\u00a0 The charter school option gives local families the choice to spend their tax dollars to, in the words of Founders Classical Academy, \u201cprovide a well-rounded education that is distinctively classical, that pursues knowledge, promotes virtue, and prepares students for prosperous lives in a free society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What more could a conservative education reformer ask for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, there are 5,277 charter schools serving 1.6 million K-12 students. But not all of them are urban minority, low-income students.\u00a0 Some serve suburban middle class families looking for an alternative to the curriculum on tap in a traditional public school. For example, Hillsdale College is spearheading a national campaign to create at least one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2473,64,4047,4048,1447,561],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charter-school","tag-education","tag-hillsdale-college","tag-liberal-arts","tag-reform","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17267,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions\/17267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}