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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Daily Kos: Save Unsuccessful Charter Schools (SUCS), Now!

Daily Kos: Save Unsuccessful Charter Schools (SUCS), Now!:


Save Unsuccessful Charter Schools (SUCS), Now!



Charter Schools - Dividing Communities since 1991


Increasingly over the past decade, children and their parents all across the U.S. are choosing to enroll in or are being chosen to attend charter schools that are average or failing. Since these children are our future, we must organize now and help reform the struggling charter school movement; thus, I am forming Save Unsuccessful Charter Schools (SUCS).
The facts about charter schools in the U.S. are stunning :
• Students attending charter schools sit in schools, when compared to traditional public schools, that are overwhelming average and below average in student outcomes.
• Students choosing to attend charter schools are sitting in schools populated disproportionately by students exactly like them. Charter schools are 21st century segregation.
• Faculty at charter schools are often inexperienced and uncertified; as well, charter faculty