Pinquito (Pinkitas) beans (1975); "Charter School" coiner dies

[Joel S. Berson]

Thus "charter school" first meant its form of corporation -- in
Massachusetts, the charter schools (as opposed to programs within public
schools) are not subject to local school boards, and are overseen in a
different manner than public schools -- and only later took on a meaning
denoting their educational principles.  The 1700s charter schools, which
first arose in Ireland, still seem the precedent.

Joel

At 6/22/2005 02:31 AM, you wrote:
>Maybe those 1700s citations are a little off and OED needs a new "charter
>school" entry?
...
>Dr. Budde, a former assistant professor at the school of education at the
>University of Massachusetts, Amherst, first suggested the term "charter"
>for use in education in the 1970's to describe a novel contracting
>arrangement designed to support the efforts of innovative teachers within
>the public school system. He long opposed the later idea that charter
>schools could be an alternative to public education.