Once again, disturbing practices at NYC’s Success Academy Charter Management Organization have surfaced. This time it’s a teacher dressing down a first grader, it’s tough to watch, but here’s the video. Earlier this year the CMO was under scrutiny for its so-called “Got to go“ list. To some Success is getting undue scrutiny, and to…
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Lamenting School Choice Week and the Need for Braver Authorizers
It’s national school choice week next week, and as the resident charter killjoy, I am compelled to throw some cold water on the celebration. School choice is not a panacea. There is no real “market” in education (and if there were it would be scary) and there is nothing inherent in providing a hypothetical choice…
Who’s Really Choosing in School Choice? Part 1
School choice, for me, was about empowering underserved families to have the same range of quality options that well off parents had, without having to buy a house in the Hills. Montessori, dual language, arts, technology-infusion, even military school, these were the options that families craved and we helped develop. Choice is empowerment. But there’s…