Economist Uses Charter School To Argue For School Calendar Change

[Bussardre@aol.com]

FYI:
 
Well, once again, education and the economy provide the argument for a move 
 to a year-round calendar, using charter school experiences as evidence the 
 change is beneficial bopth to the economy and education in general.
 
An Ohio economist is predicting his state will see great pressure next year 
 to switch to longer days and a year-round school calendar based on the 
"success"  stories of charter schools.
 
Anyone know anything about Ned Hill of Cleveland State University?
 
The same article has some interesting comments from a Brookings Institution 
 analyst.
 
Happy New Year, folks.  If you thought the last decade was hell for  
education, it was just a dress rehearsal for the coming decade of education  
warfare.
 
---Billee Bussard
 
 
_http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/post_178.html_ 
(http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/post_178.html) 
 
Welcome to the decade of the Super Region: Cleveland's future entwined with 
 Youngstown's
By _Amanda Garrett, The Plain Dealer_ 
(http://connect.cleveland.com/user/amgarrett/index.html)  
December 31, 2009, 10:56PM

 
Public schools will be pressured into year-round school and longer days  
after the success of good charter schools, Hill said, adding  that the public 
school teachers shouldn't expect a raise. [Economist Ned  Hill, dean of the 
urban affairs college at Cleveland State University,  travels the country as 
part of his job.] 
 
To survive, Northeast Ohio must set audacious education goals,  Katz said. 
Blacks and Hispanics will soon be 40 percent of the  work force and they're 
lagging most behind. Providing better education "is not  just a nice thing 
to do, it's a competitive thing to do," he said.  ["The  bottom line is the 
U.S. just got the biggest wake-up call it received in the  past 50 years," 
Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution said of  the recession. We have been 
growing in the wrong way, he said, and must change  to survive. "The American 
economy is about to rebalance and restructure in a  dramatic way," Katz 
said.]