Joe Nathan is co-director of the Center for School Change. He was a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president. Reactions welcome: joe@centerforschoolchange.org.
Joe Nathan is co-director of the Center for School Change. He was a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president. Reactions welcome: joe@centerforschoolchange.org.
When parents or students say a school “saved their life,” I pay attention. Recently I heard this phrase often at several Minnesota charter public schools that I visited. Here are a few of those stories. Together these charter schools produce billions of dollars in benefits to individuals and Minnesota.
Paladin Career & Technical High School is in Coon Rapids. Heidi Meade feared her son, Casey, might take his life before enrolling there. She said: “The school saved him and many others. That school is changing the world.”
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