Seattle Schools Community Forum: Latest In State/Local Charter Misinformation

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Latest In State/Local Charter Misinformation:

Latest In State/Local Charter Misinformation

by Melissa Westbrook

Looking at what editorial boards from around the state are saying about charters, it would seem most of them are fairly uninformed.

The Spokesman-Review:
In Washington, charter schools are like most late library books: overdue without a good excuse.

They seem to forget that voters did address this issue already three times.  

Forty schools won’t upset the state’s vast public school system, nor will they transform the quality of education. However, it is a nice number with which to test the arguments for adding more choices to improve outcomes, and to persuade more parents to entrust their children to public education.

Interesting theory.  We pass a law (not a pilot program which the Legislature could do) to try them but they may or may not be quality schools nor will they have significant outcomes to the state?