Bronx Charter School's Failure Highlights Failure of Charter Schools | The Measure

Bronx Charter School's Failure Highlights Failure of Charter Schools | The Measure

Bronx Charter School's Failure Highlights Failure of Charter Schools

Posted by Ross Barkan on Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM

• Mother Hale Academy in the Bronx, a district school that housed the Academic Leadership Charter

Despite support from Mayor Bloomberg, President Obama, and the corporate establishment, charter schools in New York City and everywhere else have yet to prove that they can solve the problem that is America’s education system. In the South Bronx, the Academic Leadership Charter School has been put on probation this week for not randomizing admissions—as charter schools are supposed to do—and possibly testing or interviewing applicants, which they are not, the Timesreports.

For those snoozing during Davis Guggenheim’s misguided documentary Waiting for “Superman”, charter schools are publicly-funded private schools that many hail as the saviors of education, though empirical evidence and