For Carlo J. Abrams, the human resources consultant, the most exciting thing about charter schools--and the Banneker--is that the traditional bureacracy is bypassed.
"There is no such animal [like bureacracy] with charter schools," he says.
Up to the Test?
For Massachusetts' schools right now, that proof is test scores.
The school is too young for test scores to mean much. Currently, the school only has MCAS results from 30 fourth graders.
"My goal is to get right out there in front. How do you affect students? How do you make them read better?
Part of my goal is to be at the fore-front of not just charter schools, but schools," Birkett says.
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