Charter School Experiment a Success

[longknife]

By USA Today, USA Today - April 2, 2013

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.

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And USA Today can't exactly be pushed aside as being NEO.

 

[koshergrl]

Shocking. Evidence that our current national education model sucks dick and schools that are not held hostage to unions do a better job of educating, and when parents can choose where the children attend (thus creating an atmosphere of competition among the educators) the quality of education improves.

Go figure. Whoda thunk.