The Charter School Fairy
Meet the Merit Pay Fairy's second cousin: the Charter School Fairy:
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All you people who keep telling me, "Charters are public schools," let me ask you this: if a kid showed up mid-year and demanded entrance at a charter school, would they have to take him? OK, then what about a public school?
Or try this one: if the democratically-elected school board of community didn't want to take tax money away from the local schools to fund a charter, should they be compelled to anyway by an unelected commissioner?
So let's cut the crap on charters, OK? They take public money, but they are not public schools, any more than Halliburton or the Red Cross is a government agency. Some may be non-profit, but they are \
NJ Charter Report Held Hostage: Day 600!
NJ Charter Report Held Hostage: Day 600!
(Oops, one day late)
600 days ago, NJ Education Commissioner Chris Cerf was confronted with an inconvenient truth. Cerf, an inveterate charter school pusher, had put out an analysis of charter performance in New Jersey that purported to show that the majority of charter schools in New Jersey outperformed their neighboring public schools. But the report never accounted for student characteristics; there was no acknowledgment that charters were not serving the same kids as public schools.
Matt DiCarlo called him out on it. Bruce Baker called him out on it. Bob Braun called him out on it. Yours trulycalled him out on it.
600 days ago, NJ Education Commissioner Chris Cerf was confronted with an inconvenient truth. Cerf, an inveterate charter school pusher, had put out an analysis of charter performance in New Jersey that purported to show that the majority of charter schools in New Jersey outperformed their neighboring public schools. But the report never accounted for student characteristics; there was no acknowledgment that charters were not serving the same kids as public schools.
Matt DiCarlo called him out on it. Bruce Baker called him out on it. Bob Braun called him out on it. Yours trulycalled him out on it.
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