Florida is Most Charter School Friendly State but Charter School Lobby Complains About School Board Oversight | Scathing Purple Musings

Florida is Most Charter School Friendly State but Charter School Lobby Complains About School Board Oversight | Scathing Purple Musings:

Florida is Most Charter School Friendly State but Charter School Lobby Complains About School Board Oversight

by Bob Sikes

What better expert on charter-school friendly legislation can there be than a billionaire-funded national charter school lobby? And, of course, its naturally biased, um, researcher. From StateImpact:

Todd Ziebarth is the author of the study. He said Florida can do “a better job in holding authorizers accountable for their work and the quality of the charter schools that they approve.”

In Florida, only the school board in each school district can authorize opening a new charter school and renewing an existing one — a model Ziebarth says can get tricky.

“What we find in Florida and other states is that it’s challenging for school boards to do a great job