Editorial: New compact offers a truce in charter wars
Published: Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 13A
The Sacramento City Unified School District is among 16 across the country that have signed a compact to work with charter schools. This initiative, supported with $100,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to get beyond relationships of antagonism and isolation. It seeks to put contentious issues on the table, instead of sweeping them under the rug.
That's a much-needed new direction for Sac City Unified. Today, the district has six "dependent"