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Keep tight reins on charter schools

OCTOBER 15, 2010

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When it comes to our deeply divided public discourse, there's an oasis of bipartisan consensus in a desert of talking points and talking heads. It's education reform.

The broad consensus is for measures pursued by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and Gov. Bobby Jindal, to give you an idea. They include monitoring of performance among disadvantaged statistical subgroups, performance standards measured by testing, an easing of work and tenure rules that make it tough to get rid of ineffective administrators and teachers, and — maybe the biggest change of all — charter schools.

Applications have been filed both in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes to operate the schools, so far unsuccessfully. Public money goes to the schools, which are generally operated by some entity other than