The arrival of charter schools in any city usually starts a fight.
Critics — whether district superintendents or teachers' unions or school boards or a traveling band of academic doubters — snipe at the newcomers, arguing that they're siphoning students and money from traditional public schools.
But as evidence from the 20-year-old charter experiment mounts, the snipers are in need of a new argument. There's little doubt left that top-performing charters have introduced new educational models that have already achieved startling results in even the most difficult circumstances.
By USA Today, USA Today - April 2, 2013
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And USA Today can't exactly be pushed aside as being NEO.
That doesn't mean all charters are automatically good. They're not. But it's indisputable that the good ones — most prominently, KIPP — are onto something.
I think everyone except public school teachers and teachers' unions has known this for a long time. The first thing opponents will say of the results is: "They cherry pick." Maybe they do. AND DAMNED LUCKY FOR THOSE CHERRIES!!! We have been failing generations of kids forever.
I'm delighted to see this mainstream acceptance. KIPP's my hero!!
So what?
You can slap a charter-school-hating liberal upside the head with every fricken fact available and they will still try to find a way to justify their viewpoint and, as long as the teachers and administrators are part of the teacher's union they will always be opposed to charter schools. We need to get the liberals out of our school systems.
Actually, the teachers unions run several charter schools.
The city teacher union’s bid to show it could run a charter school as well as any non-unionized shop has blown up in its face, the latest school results show.
Fewer than 10 percent of eighth-graders at The UFT Charter School in Brooklyn passed this year’s state English exams — the worst performance among charters citywide.
Just 28 percent of the East New York school’s eighth-graders passed the most recent math exams — also a bottom-dwelling mark.
Overall, the school earned a D grade on its city-issued report card last week — with a score that put it in the bottom 5 percent of all K-to-8 schools in the city.
I'm a liberal, don't need to be slapped upside the head to see the result of this study are obviously beneficial to the education system as a whole. Oddly enough though, the key was not charter schools vs public schools, the key was the collaboration of the two. We need to take partisanism out of schools and stop blaming people to get your point across. If the charter school model was perfect, there would be no public school. The fact is, our country can't afford to make every school a charter school, yet by collaborating, you see extended sucesses in both. Seems like that was a part of the article you missed.
The article is clearly NOT a review of charter schools. It says right up front it is only looking at the TOP performing charter schools. As such, it should only be taken for what it is and in no way shape or from is it any sort of representation regarding the entire charter school movement or experiment.
This would be no different than writing an article about top performing public schools.
Charters more closely resemble private enterprise.
By USA Today, USA Today - April 2, 2013
Read more @ Charter School Experiment a Succes
And USA Today can't exactly be pushed aside as being NEO.
Let those fangs out haymarket. But we want the CHOICE that charters offer.
From your article:
That doesn't mean all charters are automatically good. They're not.
Yes some are good. There are also good public schools. The test whether either s on the whole better. The results say no. And that is with Charter Schools ring selective, meaning they should be hands down better.
The key is to give parents choice over how they spend their resources on their children's education. Parents can then decide for themselves which school best serves the needs of their children. There's no reason to put the government in charge of educating our children. Until the parent can fire his child's school and hire any number of alternatives, all of which have to compete with each other, government school will continue to be the abject failure it has proven itself to be.
They have choice. Same as all of us do. I've always been able spend my money on a private school education.
However, you have the government involved in charter schools. As long as tax dollars are spent on it, the government will be involved. You're just creating another level of involvement for something not really any more effective.
The key is to give parents choice over how they spend their resources on their children's education. Parents can then decide for themselves which school best serves the needs of their children. There's no reason to put the government in charge of educating our children. Until the parent can fire his child's school and hire any number of alternatives, all of which have to compete with each other, government school will continue to be the abject failure it has proven itself to be.
I think that the main reason that we see this differently is because you think that education is about the parents. I think that education is about the children.
They have choice. Same as all of us do. I've always been able spend my money on a private school education.
However, you have the government involved in charter schools. As long as tax dollars are spent on it, the government will be involved. You're just creating another level of involvement for something not really any more effective.
Personally, I would prefer that government not interfere with schooling at all. This is because I generally prefer to allow people to make their own choices rather than have their choices made for them by government officials.
The point is, Charter schools don achieve even that.
I agree with you that it's about the children.
actually, in much of the charter school movement its about profit and politics. The children are just pawns in the game.
As in the public school system.
really!?!?!?!?! where is the private sector profit in the public school system?
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