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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Washington State PTA Considers Support for Charter Schools

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Washington State PTA Considers Support for Charter Schools:

Washington State PTA Considers Support for Charter Schools

I received a copy of the PTA's "toolkit" with information and paper handouts on issues. One of them was forcharters.

Upfront I'll say this is for local units to print out and give out to their members. Apparently, it's still up for discussion and I hope each and every one of you that belongs to a PTA gets it on the agenda at your school. This issue needs the fullest airing possible.

What is quite strange about the position paper is that it doesn't answer one simple question: why charters? It has no information about how they have performed or why they would work better. You'd think if you were