IndianaCharterSchoolers now has its own, easy to remember, domain address. www.IndianaCS.net. IndianaCharterSchoolers is where parents can go to network with other parents with children in public charter schools. Keep up on the news and information that the district State Schools just don't seem to tell you about. This includes legal issues brought on by the Indiana State Teachers' Association (ISTA) aimed at hampering the effectiveness of charters or shutting them down altogether. Subscribing is free. Why not find other parents who actually LIKE the education their children are receiving from their chartered public school?

The IndianaCharterSchoolers e-list is managed by the same people who manage the IndianaHomeschoolers e-list for homeschoolers throughout Indiana. We are facilitating the heated discussions that will eventually help bring about the changes necessary to get virtual learning environments open to every parent who would like to take advantage of them.

The Alternative Educators' Network promotes thinking differently about learning. Subscribe directly to IndianaCharterSchoolers here.

 

network news

The Network is planning on growing and expanding its mission over the next few months, and we can't wait to fill you in on the plans. But first, we think it's important to inject a little history:

The Alternative Educators' Network has been around since before the turn of the century. Founded by a homeschooling father (of one at the time -- it's now four) and full time dad. Ben Bennett founded AEN by starting and managing the discussion e-list called AltEdDiscourse, for the purpose of discussing the more political aspects of state schooling, as well as the many reasons homeschooling seems to work better than state schools.

Since then, he has branched out and assisted in forming the statewide networking organization, The Indiana Home Educators' Network. His company, Bennett and Company helped to manage and coordinate IHEN's various e-lists as well as design their web site. IHEN's IndianaHomeschoolers e-list is now the largest free subscription e-list in the state, with close to 1,300 subscribers by mid 2007. Indiana Home Educators' Network's web site, IHEN.org, is the most visited Indiana based web site for parents interested in homeschooling.

That was the short version. :-) The Alternative Educators' Network is hoping to build on the networking experience, to help other alternative educators, organizations and institutions build successful communities and associations. In the near future, we'll be announcing our plans.

In the meantime, if you are interested in learning more, please drop us an e-mail. We'd love to know if our history, can be a part of your future.

 

what's the buzz?

Most of what we do is communicate and inform each other via e-mail lists, or e-lists. More and more, people are relying on the Internet, and networking communities for their immediate and most reliable source of news and information. It seems we trust a community of people we don't know, but seem to know what they're talking about, over a news anchor face, telling us what the mainstream media thinks we should know.

Here is a fairly current listing of what is being talked about on the various Alternative Educators' Network e-list communities.

 

our purpose

Providing information on the wide range of alternatives to institutional state schooling. Helping parents get their children back.

 

joining AEN

You can't join the Alternative Educators' Network. But you can support AEN by passing the word about us, or supporting our web sites with advertising. Write to AltEdNet for more information.