When the charter school concept was introduced, it was promoted as offering “models” for other public schools. The education community would see what programs offered by charter schools were successful and use those as models for what they offered to their students.
What happened?
Let’s not create more charter schools. Let’s offer more funds to the rest of the public schools to create the kinds of programs that lead to the successes that Charter schools have demonstrated. Can there be a financial structure for innovation in all public schools, as modeled by charter schools?
Ellen Kaufmann
Buckland