Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Can UW Be Promoting I-1240?

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Can UW Be Promoting I-1240?:


Can UW Be Promoting I-1240?

You may have heard of the Partnership for Learning, yet another business-based ed reform group.   They have just put out a document called Examining Charters: How public charter schools can work in Washington State.  It "examines" charters in other states and comes to the astonishing conclusion that we need them here in Washington State.

However, upon a quick read, I came upon a troubling issue.

It was written with the help of UW's Center on Reinventing Public Education.  Actually, the whole thing was