Modern School: CA Charters Under Attack? Let’s Hope So!

Modern School: CA Charters Under Attack? Let’s Hope So!

CA Charters Under Attack? Let’s Hope So!

by Michael Dunn

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The right wing and pro-charter web educational clearinghouse Media Bullpen thinks charters are under attack in California, that their precious freedoms are being suppressed and their necessarily positive innovations stymied. They also think that Emily Alpert ‘s piece in theVoice of San Diego is too hyperbolic. Yet Alpert does not question the unproven presumptions that increased “freedoms” and innovation are necessary or beneficial to students, nor the equally unproven assertion that bureaucracies limit the effectiveness of traditional public schools. She doesn’t even suggest that charters are bad or need to go. What she does do is