Posted on September 9, 2008 at 2:13 pm by Stafford Palmieri
Double standards
Joanne Jacobs takes aim at the disparities between charter and traditional public school performance standards. She writes,
Ohio is closing two chronically low-performing charter schools. That’s good. But the perform-or-else rule applies only to charters. Fourteen district-run schools would be closed if the same standards were applied. All will remain in business.
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September 9th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
If a charter school is closed down, the students can go to their neighborhood schools. If a neighborhood school is closed down . . . then what?
September 9th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
If the neighborhood school is excrable, so what?
September 10th, 2008 at 12:12 am
What do you mean by excrable?