Charter Schools Showing Excellence

In a recent St. Louis Beacon article, charter schools are shown to be productive educational settings, especially the language immersion programs. They are not only getting better grades than in other schools, the the achievement gap is closing. Charter school boosters try to close the gap

By Robert Joiner, Beacon staff

Posted 7:51 a.m. Tues., Mar. 17 - One of the highest scoring public schools in Missouri is Academie Lafayette, a language immersion charter school in Kansas City. Not only does it outperform other charters and many regular public schools on state assessment exams, Lafayette stands out this year for being the first charter to become a Missouri Gold Star school. These are schools, 15 in all this year, that the state says are performing at a high academic level. The rest of the article can be viewed at the Beacon.