Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
I expect there will be more public charter schools.
An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.
Charter schools are not a panacea.
It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.
In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.
We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
