Florida Policy Makers Continue to Ignore Charter School Failure and Corruption
Florida Times-Union columnist Tonyaa Weathersbee is onto the fact that Florida’s republican legislators are more worried about getting charter schools than holding them accountable. After noting a charter-school funded think-tank gave Florida a great grade for “operating freedom” and “flexibility” Weathersbee points to another study which shows that those charter schools aren’t doing so well:
It’s understandable that the center would grade states on how easy they make it for charter schools to proliferate.
That’s because the main promise behind those schools is that if they’re allowed some flexibility to teach students without being hamstrung by rules that other public schools have to abide by, they