I’m here at City Hall again, council chambers. It’s time for another night of liveblogging. I’ll be updating this post throughout the night, so refresh often.
Here’s the agenda for tonight. As the night goes on, I’ll add discussion summaries and vote counts under each individual item:
Continue reading Liveblogging the Peoria City Council Meeting, 8/11/2009
Up until now, we’ve just seen some general information on the proposed math and science academy charter school. But now the Peoria Charter School Initiative has released its “Design Framework” — a detailed, 41-page document that goes over everything from curriculum to cost:
Peoria Charter School Initiative Design Framework
Take a look at it. What do you think? I haven’t had time to thoroughly read over it, but I did note that they’re planning on longer school days (8:00-3:20) and more school days per year (200). It seems whenever anyone wants to improve education, more time spent in school is part of the solution — everywhere except in District 150’s regular schools, that is.