Bellweather Education Partners has a new report out today called “Location, Location, Location: How would a high-performing charter school network fare in different states?” Authors Andrew Rotherham (of Eduwonk fame) and Chris Lozier (CFO of Civitas Schools) have conducted a “thought experiment” focusing on a highly-regarded charter school network in California – Aspire Public Schools — that faces a problem endemic to charters: how can these schools scale up and achieve sustainability? And, given California’s general underfunding of public education, how would Aspire fare in a more generous state?
Read the report to find out for yourself. But here’s a few New Jersey tidbits:
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If charter schools represent "labs" for the propogation and testing of educational concepts prior to their adoption in the public schools, why do we need them to "scale up" into large "networks"?
Methinks Messrs. Rotherham and Lozier have tipped their hands regarding the real agenda here, namely the de-funding and displacement of public schools by increasing numbers of charters.
Where is Albert Shanker when we need him?