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New charter schools go on a voyage of learning

"Off the News"   
For Monday, December 17, 2012

As innovative laboratories, charter schools continue to grow in the state Department of Education, and the latest are focused on voyaging and questions of life experiences.

Nainoa Thompson, president of the Voyaging Society, and Robert Witt of the Hawaiian Educational Council have joined in proposing the Malama Honua Learning Center. And the School of Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability, or SEEQS, is gearing up as a home of real-world situations. Both have been approved by the Public Charter School Commission.

"Charter schools that start off strong tend to stay strong," says William Haft of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. "My primary message is that the bar is high on the front end."

That description seems to apply to the latest charters in Hawaii.

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