Video: How Traditional Charters Lost Their Mojo
Check out this five-minute clip sent to me by the Ed Labor Dems showing George Miller getting a little bit heated (merely displeased, really) about the refusal of many charter school management organizations to make the contracts they have available to the public.
This is from the Wednesday hearing on charters. Miller, not known as a big charter opponent, weighed in after hearing that a request for contracts from charter organizations generated a 2 percent response rate, a followup FOIA got that number up to only about 20 percent. Truth is, a lot of the reformy oomph behind traditional charters seems to have been lost over the past two or three years, even as they continue to be pushed through