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Engaging Parents In School… » National PTA Changes Stance On Charter Schools, & It’s A Disappointing One…

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National PTA Changes Stance On Charter Schools, & It’s A Disappointing One…

The National PTA now supports letting other bodies besides local school boards authorize charter schools. That’s a big disappointment, since charter school operators are now often making “end-runs” around local school boards who won’t approve them by going to county boards of education or other bodies.
For example, here in Sacramento a charter chain couldn’t get any local school district to approve their schools, so they got the county board to do so. So, the county board of education, which is responsible by state law for