Massachusetts Charter School Study Not Mentioned in Boston Globe: That Can Only Mean One Thing
Paid for with federal grant money set aside for advancing the charter school crusade against public education, the State of Massachusetts commissioned the McKinsey-trained researchers at Harvard’s CEPR to examine how statewide charter school MCAS scores compare with public school MCAS scores. The results were the subject of a minor soiree and panel discussion at Harvard earlier this week, and the fact that theBoston Globe did not report on it can only mean that the results did not bode well for charters.
Dr. Mitchell Chester, Commissioner of Schools for the Commonwealth, spins up the