Tom Moran: Listen To Your Readers!
So I opened up my dead tree version of the Star-Ledger this morning and read yet another charter cheerleading editorial by Tom Moran and crew. And I was dreading firing up the laptop and writing yet another post that says - yet again:
"Successful" charter schools in New Jersey do not serve the same students as neighboring public schools. They owe much of their "success" to the fact that they have fewer poor children, fewer children who speak a language other than English at home, and fewer children with special needs. Because of this, they impose undue costs on sending districts, who must serve the children who are more costly to educate.
And then I was going to link to the same research, and post the same graphs:
and make the same case about how "choice" increases segregation, and how hypocritical it is to hold public
"Successful" charter schools in New Jersey do not serve the same students as neighboring public schools. They owe much of their "success" to the fact that they have fewer poor children, fewer children who speak a language other than English at home, and fewer children with special needs. Because of this, they impose undue costs on sending districts, who must serve the children who are more costly to educate.
And then I was going to link to the same research, and post the same graphs:
and make the same case about how "choice" increases segregation, and how hypocritical it is to hold public