Ixnay on the Arter-Chay
Look for Heather Steans' state charter commission to overrule the Rockford school board, which has found what basically everyone else has found...
The administration said its approval would turn a private or nonpublic school into a charter school, officials couldn’t ensure the plan was “economically sound,” and officials couldn’t demonstrate that they were willing or able to provide services to students with disabilities or “meaningful, appropriate or adequate education for English-language learners.”
For the record, these concerns have not stopped Rahm Emanuel. I do not know how the economic model makes sense anywhere, honestly. It seems like a complex, opaque way to spread public resources so thinly that they can't possibly be effective anywhere.
