Whoa! Where did that come from Washington State PTA!? Charter schools?!
If you are a parent in a Seattle Public School, please forward this to your PTA legislative representative and president. They need to know the facts before voting on this plank in the Washington State PTA platform. The vote will happen in the statewide meeting being held in October.
Dora
The people in the state of Washington have voted down charter schools three times. This blog and others have provided studies and examples of how the heralded success of privatization of our public schools has remained unproven unless there is a tremendous amount of private funding received by the charter school as with theHarlem School Zone . Most charter schools do no better than their public school counterparts and many do not succeed and are simply test factories with no financial transparency and staffed by inexpensive labor many times in the form of Teach for America, Inc. recruits. But, Ramona Hattendorf, past Seattle PTA President and now lobbyist for the Washington PTA, described in her newsletter , down towards the bottom of the page, the