Seventy-five or 80 per cent of our students should be able to get an A grade. He shows me a sheaf of his students' test scores, stacked up against provincial averages. He tells me his 718 students average a grade and a half of progress every school year. The Foundations for the Future Charter Academy is a charter school, one of several opened since 1995 as part of Alberta's experiment with public education reform. We need to make sure our legislators know parents want this.
Charter schools are indeed non-unionized.
But they are, in fact, public schools. They can't charge tuition or teach religion. Also, unlike private schools, they must accept everyone who applies. They're not allowed to be selective. Half the kids who came in to our school at Grade 7 were failing.