Tom Moran's Pig-Headed Ignorance
What do you do when someone in a position of influence refuses to see a basic truth over and over again? Like, for instance, the Star-Ledger's op-ed page editor Tom Moran, here speaking about Newark's charter schools:
Charter schools in Newark are not replicable on a large scale because they do not serve the same students as public schools.
I have explained this to Moran over and over and over and over and over again. I know for a fact he reads this blog
The best charter schools have waiting lists that stretch into the thousands. The council wants [Superintendent Cami] Anderson to block any expansions — and even bar the charter schools from even using empty classrooms in district schools.And so we have yet another piece by Moran that implies that Newark's charters are "succeeding," without acknowledging the most basic fact about these schools:
Charter schools in Newark are not replicable on a large scale because they do not serve the same students as public schools.
I have explained this to Moran over and over and over and over and over again. I know for a fact he reads this blog
