Show 22: Excerpt - The Impact of Charter Schools in the Neighborhood
As we've heard this week there are a lot of options for educating kids in the Anchorage area – even within the public school system. Where your kid goes to school affects more than just their education – it affects who their friends are and where you find community.
Within the Anchorage School District, 28% of students don’t go to their neighborhood school. They attend a charter school, or a special program within the ASD – language immersion, open optional or Montessori, for example. Jessica Cochran spoke with educators and administrators in the Anchorage School District, as well as with Claire Smrekar who studies school choice and communities at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, to learn about the by-products of a rich school choice environment.
Listen to the full report below (school_choice_mix), and then hear a web extra of Professor Smrekar speaking about how parents decide on schooling options after the jump (web_claire_smrekar_how_parents_decide).
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  This show is made possible by the Association of Alaska School Boards’ Initiative for Community Engagement, an initiative funded by the US Dept. of Education to provide Alaskans with information, tools and assistance to work together and engage in the shared responsibility of preparing Alaska’s children and youth for the future. |