My friend Barry Isaacson has just sent me an email about the Renaissance Arts Academy, a Charter School in Los Angeles that he’s just been to look at with a view to sending his son there. Charter Schools are the American equivalents of Free Schools – ie, privately-run, but publicly-funded. If Michael Gove makes it easier for parents/educators to start schools like the Renaissance Arts Academy, then more power to him. This is precisely the kind of school I’d like to start in Acton.
Here’s Barry’s description:
“This place is an astonishing local institution founded by parents with distinguished teaching experience and very uncompromising standards. It’s a so-called ‘Arts Magnet’; it appears that charter schools here are funded according to local requirements for educational specialisms and RenArts emphasizes music, dance and drama. It’s important to understand that Jenny and I do not want to find the Los Angeles equivalent of Dartington Hall – I can think of nothing worse — and turn poor Nathan into Twyla Tharp.
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