Stop investing time, money in charter schools
One pattern of failure in education reform is that political leadership and the public focus attention and resources to solutions while rarely asking what problems we are addressing or how those solutions address identified problems. The current and possibly increasing advocacy of charter schools is a perfect example of that flawed approach to improving our schools across the U.S. and in South Carolina.
Let’s start with two clarifications.
First, the overwhelming problems contributing to school quality in South Carolina are pockets of poverty across our state and school policies and practices mirroring and increasing social inequities for children once they enter many schools.
Children who live under the weight of poverty attend buildings in disrepair, sit in classrooms with inexperienced and unqualified or