Monday, July 16, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: UW's CRPE Dumbfounds with Lessons on Charter Law

Seattle Schools Community Forum: UW's CRPE Dumbfounds with Lessons on Charter Law:


UW's CRPE Dumbfounds with Lessons on Charter Law

Over at UW's Center for Reinventing Public Education, they wrote a one pager about "lessons for Washington State" on getting high-quality charter schools.  I have to laugh as I wonder if they even read I-1240.

Highlights:

• Strong authorizing is key to quality
o Districts cannot be only authorizer, but authorizers need to build competency

o Weak or negligent authorizing leads to many low-performing schools
- Promote authorizer clarity/accountability in law, implementation  

So the CRPE must be against I-1240 because:

- the Charter Commission does NOT have to be pre-authorized in the same way School Boards do.  It seems odd that an elected board would have to go through a process that the members of the Charter Commission