Preuss School/UCSD - Not the Charter You Might Think
I was in San Diego recently and took the opportunity to visit a charter school. I may have my own opinions on charter schools but it is always valuable to keep gathering information and insights. Preuss/UCSD , a 6-12 school, sits on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. Their building is on land donated by the University and they built their buildings with about $14M in donations. (Note to BEX; we do NOT have to spend mega-dollars for decent buildings. This one was fairly stark and did not have many amenities but if they can build a 6-12 school for 800 students for $14M, it would seem we could build a full-out high school for $50M and not $90-100M.) In June 2011, Newsweek magazine named Preuss as the nation's top transformative school in the country.