Yesterday's NYT's article showing poor test performance among students in charter schools is informative as the Mpls district debates the increase in charter school alternatives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/education/17charter.html Charter schools aren't what they used to be. Once rare offsprings of the public school system, they are now becoming a "movement", a growing collection of alternative schools advocated as part of the privatization of public schools and No Child Left Behind act. It is worth noting that at Monday's school board candidate debate, with the exception of candidate David Dayhoff, who advocated charter school like environments for public schools (he also introduced himself as a current or former member of a suburban charter school), I didn't hear any other candidate focus on charter schools as a means to closing the achievement gap. Jeanne Massey Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
