Grannan: Where have all the KIPPsters gone?
Guest post by Caroline Grannan.
“[Charter schools] have a distinct advantage … Their families have already chosen to be at a charter and have often jumped through numerous hoops to get there. This makes it easier for charters to create their own cultures. They can define the length of their days, dictate exactly how children dress and enforce strict codes of conduct. Those students — scholars, in charter parlance — who fall out of line don’t last.”
– Jonathan Mahler in the New York Times Magazine
“I will never follow the lead of those who exclude the kids who need education the most so that their precious scores will rise.”
– John Kuhn, superintendent of Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District, Perrin, Texas