Gossamer Ridge Institute is currently seeking non-profit status. California passed its Charter School Law in 1992 and it was revised in 1998. There are now 156 charter schools operating in the state. According to the law, state educational standards apply and charter schools are required to use the same student assessment instruments as other public schools. The law also allows charter schools to use district-owned facilities that are not used for educational or administrative purposes at no cost, but requires that all teachers hold a credential, emergency permit or other document issued by the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Charter schools are often special purpose schools and have a finely developed mission statement.
We hope to have it completed for Saturday's presentation at Town Hall. According to Dr. Caine, learning will be project-driven and based on the biology of learning. There are tons of research that has been done over the past 20 years on this but schools haven't changed much. They're based on the factory concept of raw material being made into widgets of one sort or the other. The teacher is the purveyor of information.