Sarah Darer Littman’s latest MUST READ PIECE - Connecticut Legislators Take Note, West Coast Rulings Are Going Against Charter Schools - Wait What?

Sarah Darer Littman’s latest MUST READ PIECE - Connecticut Legislators Take Note, West Coast Rulings Are Going Against Charter Schools - Wait What?:

Sarah Darer Littman’s latest MUST READ PIECE – Connecticut Legislators Take Note, 

West Coast Rulings Are Going Against Charter Schools

Fellow education advocate and CT Newsjunkie columnist Sarah Darer Littman has written another Must Read article about charter schools and Corporate Education Reform Industry’s unrelenting assault on public education.

In her latest piece, Littman challenges Connecticut legislators to pay “close attention to several interesting legal developments on the West Coast, which could have significant implications here in the Nutmeg State.”

Sarah Darer Littman writes,

The first came Sept. 5, when the state Supreme Court in Washington ruled 6-3 that charter schools don’t qualify as “common” schools under the state’s constitution, and therefore can’t receive public funding intended for traditional public schools.

“Our inquiry is not concerned with the merits or demerits of charter schools,” Chief Justice Barbara Madsen wrote in the majority opinion. “Whether charter schools would enhance our state’s public school system or appropriately address perceived shortcomings of that system are issues for the legislature and the voters. The issue for this court is what are the requirements of the constitution.”

Charter schools have always tried to play the public/private issue both ways. The acts of calling themselves “public” when it comes to claiming funds from 

Sarah Darer Littman’s latest MUST READ PIECE - Connecticut Legislators Take Note, West Coast Rulings Are Going Against Charter Schools - Wait What?: