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New charter authorizer to focus on innovative schools

Posted March 31, 2011

Innovative Quality Schools is a new approved authorizer of chartered schools in Minnesota. They will focus on authorizing schools that innovate with respect to instructional model, staffing and leadership design, evaluation method, or some other aspect.

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Union sees chartering as aid to teacher empowerment

Posted August 5, 2010

The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) recently received a grant from the American Federation of Teachers (MFT) to develop a 501c3 to serve as an authorizer of chartered schools in Minnesota. AFT made the investment as part of its innovation fund. Some of the initial news reports stated the MFT itself will apply to become an authorizer and others reported it would make them the first union in the nation to do so.

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Guest Post: In Minneapolis the teacher union is driving change

Posted July 9, 2010

The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has led in the development of a new law that allows districts to form independent, autonomous schools. And they have used the law to create a teacher-run school.

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Teachers have choice, too—and are using it in Minneapolis

Posted July 7, 2010

Union leaders in Minneapolis are using a new state law to create their own independent school inside the district.

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Minneapolis superintendent’s re-assessment: “I no longer feel that we can reach every child in the traditional way.”

Posted July 2, 2010

Perhaps the best of the interviews with outgoing Minneapolis Superintendent Bill Green was the one which headlined Green's comment about the need to vary the approach to learning — by school or even by student.

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Guest Posts: Autonomy creates capacity to be different

Posted June 11, 2010

Video interviews with Dan French and Lynn Nordgren, who during an Education|Evolving meeting last June expressed their support for moving control over school form and function out to the front-line units, including teachers.

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