Are all charter schools the same?
Some charter schools are dual-language. They teach students two languages. In some cases, like our own school, Milagro Charter School, we teach students both in Spanish and in English. Other places are teaching students Latin and English, or French and English. Other schools have adopted instructional models that have to do with arts and have to do with project-based learning, or integrated learning through an integrated curriculum. There are other places where it is performance based, where the students are doing performances. Part of their learning is all about arts and performance based art. Other charter schools are hi-tech. There are schools across this country that are called hi-tech high schools. Those schools all have to do with technology and robotics and engineering, for example. There are many types of schools in this charter movement, and many different philosophies and many different models and approaches to do the same thing. The common thing amongst all schools is student achievement, whether you're an art-based school, a dual-language school, technology school, or an engineering school, you all have to perform at a certain level in achievement tests that are put on by the state, no matter what type of school you do.
