{"id":295,"date":"2010-11-18T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-11-18T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:32:38","slug":"the-buzz-about-teacher-run-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"The Buzz About Teacher-Run Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media have discovered teacher run schools in a big way. \u00a0Christine Hoag of the Associated Press wrote about the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodland Hills Academy <\/a><\/strong>in Los Angeles, which converted to a teacher-run school, albeit one with a principal. \u00a0Her story has been published throughout the country, and has received substantial attention. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tennessean.com\/opinion\/2010\/11\/13\/reformers-educators-find-common-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Coverstone <\/a><\/strong>wrote a supportive opinion piece in the <em>Nashville Tennessean <\/em>as did <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tennessean.com\/opinion\/2010\/11\/13\/plan-gives-teachers-respect-they-deserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gera Summerford<\/a><\/strong>, president of the Tennessee Education Association. \u00a0Hoag&#8217;s article as published on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/11\/13\/teachers-take-charge-to-s_n_783147.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong> received a large number of comments. \u00a0My case study on teacher run schools continues to be available by clicking the link in the next column.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, \u00a0Woodland Hills Academy exists within the Los Angeles Unified School District, which I believe is rapidly becoming a national model for how a public school district can assemble a portfolio of schools operated in diverse ways. \u00a0WHA serves a racially mixed student body, about 30 percent white, 47 percent Latino, with about half the student eligible for free or reduced price lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Kim Ferris-Berg for circulating the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media have discovered teacher run schools in a big way. \u00a0Christine Hoag of the Associated Press wrote about the Woodland Hills Academy in Los Angeles, which converted to a teacher-run school, albeit one with a principal. \u00a0Her story has been published throughout the country, and has received substantial attention. \u00a0Alan Coverstone wrote a supportive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}