Monday, November 21, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Are there really too many 'mediocre' charter schools?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Are there really too many 'mediocre' charter schools?:

Are there really too many 'mediocre' charter schools?

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Right-wing think-tankers at the Fordham Institute are looking for answers and I'm sure they'll find them. You see, it's all in how you pose the question.

Their latest quest has to do with charter schools. Fordham, which doubles as a charter school lobbying and support group in Ohio, and their business-minded partners, Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust (CEE-Trust), are getting together to ponder whether or not so-called charter incubators can "can solve the problem of too many mediocre charter schools."

Right away, just by the way the question is asked, you can assume that the answer is yes. Otherwise why would they go to all thetrouble to