Thursday, November 02, 2006
Learning from Westminster
Buffalo's Westminster Community Charter School, a district-sponsored public charter school, has high test scores and was held up as a model for academic improvement at the Buffalo Board of Education last night. Superintendent James A. Williams, who has been praised on this blog as being one of the most interesting public school leaders out there, wants people to open their eyes to lessons Westminster has to offer, according to the Buffalo News."Those students are coming from the same neighborhoods our students are coming from," Williams said. "If they can do it there, we can do it."
You betcha.
Speaking of Westminster, they've got themselves a new library.
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