Thursday, January 24, 2013

A trip down memory lane with Oakland’s “American Indian” charter schools & Ben Chavis



Last evening Oakland Tribune education reporter Katy Murphy sent out this tweet: Oakland school board just voted 6-1 to issue "notice of intent to revoke" to three American Indian charters. Final decision in March.

It seemed apropos to take a look back at some memorable news stories about these schools.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

American Indian Model Schools enrollment trends: student retention and demographics



STUDENT RETENTION

American Indian Public Charter School
School Code #6113807
3637 Magee Ave., Oakland, CA

Total Enroll
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
6th>8th
Student retention
2011-12
255
4
121
80
50



71>50
70.4%
2010-11
179
0
82
57
40



66>40
60.6%
2009-10
193
1
71
52
69



77>69
89.6%
2008-09
182
0
66
72
44



62>44
71.0%
2007-08
190
5
77
59
49





2006-07
174
11
62
54
47





2005-06
196

55
55
55
31




2004-05
150

59
59
32





2003-04
132

56
29
26
21




2002-03
162

27
31
28
76




2001-02
106

28
28
50





2000-01
34

11
13
10





1999-00
18

12
0
4


2


1998-99
65

21
6
16
14
8



1997-98
68

15
19
15
19




1996-97
42

12
13
17






Monday, January 14, 2013

The Gulen Movement in Azerbaijan & a quid pro quo?



It requires an ongoing effort to even minimally understand the Gulen movement, the secretive and controversial religious group which operates the largest charter school network in the United States. Details about this group's structure, recruitment and control of members, were recently presented by Fuad Aliyev in “The Gulen Movement in Azerbaijan” (12/27/2012). His article appeared in Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, a publication of the Hudson Institute’s Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World. Aliyev is a Fulbright Scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.