{"id":53152,"date":"2020-07-07T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=53152"},"modified":"2020-07-07T19:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T02:39:40","slug":"charter-schools-what-you-need-to-know-about-their-anticipated-growth-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/charter-schools-what-you-need-to-know-about-their-anticipated-growth-in-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter schools: What you need to know about their anticipated growth in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charterschools23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"511\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charterschools23.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charterschools23-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/charterschools23-600x451.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><br \/>\nIn Alberta, the once-radical idea of charter schools, placed largely on the back burner for the past two decades, has been brought back to the fore under Premier Jason Kenney\u2019s United Conservative Party (UCP). The party\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/assets\/documents\/educ-choice-in-education-act-what-is-changing.pdf\">Choice in Education Act<\/a>\u00a0will come\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.assembly.ab.ca\/net\/index.aspx?p=bills_status&amp;selectbill=015&amp;legl=30&amp;session=2\">into force Sept. 1, after the government passed it June 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new act, individuals will be able to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/7000587\/alberta-government-ucp-charter-schools-home-schooling-education-may\/\">bypass the local school board<\/a>\u00a0and apply directly to the provincial government to seek to establish a charter school. This follows a move last fall by the newly elected UCP to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/local-news\/parents-educators-worry-ucps-amended-education-act-creates-inequity-in-public-system\">remove the cap<\/a>\u00a0(previously 15) on the number of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taapcs.ca\/\">charter schools in the province<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taapcs.ca\/members-2\/\">In Alberta<\/a>, there are now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.alberta.ca\/alberta-education\/school-authority-index\/everyone\/school-authority-information-reports\/\">13 charter school authorities operating more than 20 schools or campuses<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 for instance, the province lists seven Calgary schools run by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffca-calgary.com\/\">Foundations for the Future Charter Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These recent developments provide the opportunity to better understand what charter schools are, how they\u2019ve been taken up by advocates of educational reform and how their re-emergence and promotion under the UCP reflects the influence of neoconservative and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-exactly-is-neoliberalism-84755\">neoliberal ideologies<\/a>\u00a0in education.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ron Koper, President of the Association of Alberta Public Charter Schools, was on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABDanielleSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABDanielleSmith<\/a> show today talking about charter schools. Make sure to listen to this clip about the history and approach of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/connectcharter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@connectcharter<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/abed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#abed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ableg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ableg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mYHcnR25Uh\">pic.twitter.com\/mYHcnR25Uh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adriana LaGrange (@AdrianaLaGrange) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdrianaLaGrange\/status\/1278082539685416960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Roots of charter schools<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Charter schools emerged largely from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Chicago-school-of-economics\">Chicago School of Economics<\/a>, inspired by the ideas of prominent thinkers like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/la.utexas.edu\/users\/hcleaver\/330T\/350kPEEFriedmanRoleOfGovttable.pdf\">Milton Friedman<\/a>. Friedman argued state \u201cmonopoly\u201d over public education was problematic, and thus education should be instead subject to consumer choices and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/book\/politics-markets-and-americas-schools\/\">dynamics of the free market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While differing based on country and context, charter schools can be understood as a hybrid type of school \u2014 both public and private. Individuals or groups may seek\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/charter-schools.aspx\">to establish a school<\/a>\u00a0under a particular educational philosophy or approach. This charter then guides the administration and organization of the school.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Alberta\u2019s charter schools include a schools for children who are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newhorizons.ca\/about\/\">academically gifted<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indspire.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MECCS-Final.pdf\">an Indigenous school<\/a>\u00a0and a school\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/esl-almadina.com\/about\/about-us\/\">for children learning English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As public institutions, however, charter schools must still abide by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.alberta.ca\/media\/3227599\/charter-schools-handbook-september-2015.pdf\">policies, rules and regulations<\/a>\u00a0set out by the government. In this way, these schools can be seen as offering students and parents choice different from the local public school.<\/p>\n<p>With funding is typically determined on a per-pupil basis, if parents decide not to choose a particular charter school, it may then close. Charter schools are also subject to competitive market pressures and often have to raise capital funding for expenses such as the school building or transportation themselves. That means charter schools may turn to fundraising from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecaafoundation.com\/about1\">community-based<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iHRYAHyplko\">corporate<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/enbridge\/enbridge-helps-mother-earth-childrens-charter-school-find-new-home\/400919133287752\/\">sources<\/a>. In the U.S., for instance, some charter schools can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_htSPGAY7I\">run as for-profit<\/a>\u00a0entities.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Entry into Alberta<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Charter schools, once hailed as a solution to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=PjqcqVl98zQC&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\">the numerous apparent failures<\/a>\u00a0of the public education system, arrived in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edcan.ca\/articles\/the-alberta-public-charter-school-system\/\">Alberta with the first school opening in 1994<\/a>, just two years after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/charter-school\">first charter school opened in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Up until recently, discussion around their future or promise in Alberta has been somewhat ambiguous. But\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/local-news\/bill-8-gsas-school-fees-power-of-boards-to-be-tweaked-under-education-amendment-act\">since the UCP<\/a>\u00a0was elected last year, the provincial government has sought to revive charter schools as part of broader educational and public sector reforms.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u2018School choice\u2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As the UCP government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/local-news\/speech-from-the-throne-to-kick-off-11-week-session\">throne speech<\/a>\u00a0outlined, the party stresses expanding school choice. For instance, new legislation makes it easier for parents to home-school since they will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/bill-15-choice-in-education-act-introduced-1.5587398\">no longer need Alberta school board supervision to do so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Alberta, we have a long tradition of supporting school choice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s parents who are best suited to decide what education is best for their children &#8211; not politicians. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/abed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#abed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hF7uCeqB76\">pic.twitter.com\/hF7uCeqB76<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Kenney (@jkenney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkenney\/status\/1266379143094009859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nLast fall, the UCP also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/public-alberta-school-boards-1.5275561\">removed the word \u201cpublic\u201d<\/a>\u00a0from Alberta\u2019s public schools boards, a move that can be critically viewed as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressprogress.ca\/kenney-government-orders-alberta-public-schools-to-remove-the-word-public-from-their-name\/\">an attempt to obfuscate<\/a>\u00a0the demarcation between public and private schools.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney, himself a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/jason-kenney\">product of elite private schooling<\/a>, appears focused on the expansion of more privatized forms of education.<\/p>\n<p>Charter advocates contend that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1086\/431184?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents\">as schools of choice<\/a>, they offer students more specialized and meaningful educational experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyalternatives.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/publications\/National%20Office\/2017\/12\/Blasetti%3ASilva.pdf\">Critics often respond<\/a>\u00a0that choice is already available in public school systems and that charters don\u2019t demonstrate any significant improvements in performance, and may in fact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3102\/0013189X19879714\">further segregate<\/a>\u00a0students, leading to greater educational inequalities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachers.ab.ca\/News%20Room\/ata%20news\/Vol53\/Number-11\/Pages\/Q-and-A-Charter-education-is-not-public-education.aspx\">Educational labour unions remain unsupportive<\/a>\u00a0as well, as charters often seek to hire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2016\/09\/the-lengths-that-charter-schools-go-to-when-their-teachers-try-to-form-unions.html\">non-unionized<\/a>\u00a0teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the evidence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/ED526353.pdf\">remains mixed<\/a>\u00a0as to whether charters provide any significant improvements to student achievement. The research and policy landscape is often contentious and heavily influenced by competing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gspp.berkeley.edu\/research\/selected-publications\/the-institutional-landscape-of-interest-group-politics-and-school-choice\">interest groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Privatization<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In Canada, charter schools only exist in Alberta \u2014 a province with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utorontopress.com\/ca\/the-politics-of-educational-reform-in-alberta-2\">history of school choice policies<\/a>. As I discussed in my research into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10665684.2015.991162\">the development of Alberta\u2019s charter schools<\/a>, their existence can be largely attributed to political ideas rather than educational developments in the province.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, when charters were first introduced in Alberta, it was under a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/ralph-klein\">provincial government focused largely on values of individualism, consumerism, privatization, commercialization and deficit reduction<\/a>. Charter schools emerged as they fit in under this particular political and economic ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Today we see many of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressprogress.ca\/united-conservative-party-mla-the-idea-of-public-education-is-inanity-and-absolutely-backwards\">same values<\/a>\u00a0once again on the rise in Alberta at the same time as charters and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/charter-school-cap-removal-criticized-1.5164989\">school choice\u201d ideas are being amplified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neoconservative and neoliberal advocates of educational reform in particular continue to push them forward \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/view\/title\/21624\">as witnessed in the United States<\/a>\u00a0under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechronicleherald.ca\/opinion\/local-perspectives\/grant-frost-will-trumps-war-on-public-schools-cross-into-canada-410788\/\">President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Educational reforms and democracy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>While educational reforms can and must occur in response to a changing world,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utorontopress.com\/ca\/public-school-and-political-ideas-1\">public schools are meant to be resistant<\/a>\u00a0to political changes because they represent our core democratic values and are meant to develop to serve the needs of a diverse society.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly then, the debate over charter schools points to the fundamental political nature of public education.<\/p>\n<p>Recent pre-pandemic educational reforms proposed in Ontario for mandatory online courses were seen by many educators, parents and students not as learning improvements, but rather as reforms motivated by a Conservative government with similar neoliberal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2020\/01\/13\/secret-document-shows-ford-government-changed-its-mind-before-making-online-course-mandatory-for-high-schoolers.html\">politics, ideas and value systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario also touted its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/edu\/en\/2019\/11\/ontario-brings-learning-into-the-digital-age.html\">\u201cenhanced\u201d (mandatory) online learning as offering \u201cmore choice.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Those advocating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a8TZIhpIV6c\">school vouchers<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/opinion\/matthew-lau-after-doug-ford-maybe-ontarios-liberals-will-finally-embrace-school-choice\">expansion of charter schools<\/a>\u00a0in Ontario have used the same rhetoric.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Education as industry?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>With Alberta\u2019s charter schools set now to expand, as I asserted in 2015, it is worth noting that to date, the rest of Canada has continued to largely \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journalhosting.ucalgary.ca\/index.php\/cjeap\/article\/view\/42892\">though not entirely<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 resist calls for \u201cschool choice\u201d that imply forms of privatization.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, across Canada, chronic public underfunding of education has forced school boards to seek\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-high-schools-are-underfunded-and-turning-to-international-tuition-to-help-127753\">tuition revenue<\/a>\u00a0and promote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressprogress.ca\/secret-document-exposes-doug-fords-plan-to-replace-human-teachers-with-cheap-computers\/\">for-profit curriculums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of privatization looms large and when education is defined as an industry, there will always be those who seek to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/public-school-shakedown\/edtech-industry-profit-from-covid-19-lahm-200323\/\">profit from it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Canadians, the rejection of charter schools demonstrates our collective commitment to the some of the most important core principles of public education, including access, quality and equity. The idea of charter schools allows us to think deeply about our core values surrounding public education and the many promises which it\u2019s asked to uphold.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong> Michael Mindzak is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education at Brock University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Alberta, the once-radical idea of charter schools, placed largely on the back burner for the past two decades, has been brought back to the fore under Premier Jason Kenney\u2019s United Conservative Party (UCP). The party\u2019s\u00a0Choice in Education Act\u00a0will come\u00a0into force Sept. 1, after the government passed it June 24. 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