Boston approves establishment of two charter schools

From The Boston Globe: The Boston School Committee has given preliminary approval to opening two new in-district charter schools for fall 2012, although two members raised questions about an organization that would run one of the schools. The Boston Teacher Residency program, which recruits and trains new teaching candidates for the city, would start a charter elementary school from scratch, and Unlocking Potential, an upstart nonprofit school-turnaround organization, would convert an academically struggling elementary school into a charter school. The locations of the schools have not yet been identified.