Congressman Davis: Noble discipline policy a “striking, systemic problem”
Students protest Noble's "secret sauce" discipline policyLast summer I met with Congressman Davis’s education aide, Jill Hunter-Williams, as part of Parents Across America’s Lobby Day, the day before the SOS March. Among other things, I raised the issue of charter schools. She told me that they were aware of the unimpressive results of charter schools in general, but that they were very impressed with Noble Network of Charter Schools, which made the Congressman think that it made sense to expand such “good” charter schools. I told her what we knew at the time about Noble’s discipline policy . She was very interested and wanted more information, which I sent on to her.
It’s great to see that Congressman Davis has done his own investigation into Noble and found, as we did, that