Word: charter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because of the structure of the charter school, Birkett has reason to put in long hours. He hires and fires teachers directly, manages a $3.8 million budget and holds weekly full- staff meetings. He communicates with the Board of Trustees, the school's governing overseers...
Banneker's 30 teachers present a balanced racial mix, with half minority and half non-minority. They come from different educational backgrounds, but all beat out heavy competition to join the charter school movement...
...challenge of getting a state charter...
...gain the charter, the founding group had to prove the school would offer something the Cambridge public schools did not--so they went with a math and science focus...
...Carlo J. Abrams, the human resources consultant, the most exciting thing about charter schools--and the Banneker--is that the traditional bureacracy is bypassed...