| Inspired | Education By Charter: Restructuring School Districts |
| Inspired by | Albert Shanker |
| Start Date | 1988-00-00 |
| Notes | One Sunday in July Budde’s wife Priscilla put down the newspaper and said: "Hey, Ray, you've made the New York Times!" And she showed him the column reporting the American Federation of Teachers' sup- port for the idea of teachers setting up autonomous schools. AFT President Al Shanker had in fact floated the proposal in a talk at the National Press Club in the spring of that year. He said Ray Budde had the best name for these schools: “charter schools.” |