UW's CRPE Dumbfounds with Lessons on Charter Law
Over at UW's Center for Reinventing Public Education, they wrote a one pager about "lessons for Washington State" on getting high-quality charter schools. I have to laugh as I wonder if they even read I-1240.
Highlights:
• Strong authorizing is key to quality
o Districts cannot be only authorizer, but authorizers need to build competency
o Weak or negligent authorizing leads to many low-performing schools
- Promote authorizer clarity/accountability in law, implementation
So the CRPE must be against I-1240 because:
- the Charter Commission does NOT have to be pre-authorized in the same way School Boards do. It seems odd that an elected board would have to go through a process that the members of the Charter Commission
Highlights:
• Strong authorizing is key to quality
o Districts cannot be only authorizer, but authorizers need to build competency
o Weak or negligent authorizing leads to many low-performing schools
- Promote authorizer clarity/accountability in law, implementation
So the CRPE must be against I-1240 because:
- the Charter Commission does NOT have to be pre-authorized in the same way School Boards do. It seems odd that an elected board would have to go through a process that the members of the Charter Commission
