Friday, September 30, 2011

Passions on charter schools surface quickly at ed finance commission - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post

Passions on charter schools surface quickly at ed finance commission - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post:

Passions on charter schools surface quickly at ed finance commission

There was certainly nothing energizing about the venue--a windowless, stifling basement room beneath the MLK Library. But this was where the 13 members of the new D.C. Public Education Finance Reform Commission met Tuesday evening to begin their complex and politically fraught mission: sorting out questions of equity and fairness around the $1 billion that taxpayers spend annually on schools.

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