Over at the Charter Blog, they’re celebrating National Charter Schools Week with a link to The Huffington Post, where Mike Piscal is asking some very interesting questions about unions and charter school teachers. The unions in LA, as Piscal describes them, seem to be suffering from schizophrenia. They are at the same time criticizing the [...]
A Georgia judge has ruled that state-sponsored charter schools there are not unconstitutional. Seven school systems had sued the state, arguing that the Georgie Charter School System is building a separate and independent school system. The charters won in this go-round. According to Bruce Brown, their attorney: The constitution does not include any word that [...]
Samuel Freedman’s On Religion piece at the NYT–an interesting take on Diane Ravitch’s new must-read– argues that the proliferation of free charter schools hurts urban tuition-charging Catholic schools. Not all alternatives to failing public schools are equal, though, and Catholic schools are still the only ones to offer the things that public schools– by definition– [...]