Another Day, Another Charter Scandal
The people who have insisted on the profound moral need to save struggling children have been remarkably silent about the decades of failure in charter schools.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
A charter school regime sweeps into town with grand ambitions, lofty rhetoric, and missionary zeal, promising to save underperforming kids with the magic of markets and by getting rid of those lazy teachers and their greedy unions. What results instead is no demonstrable learning gains, serial rule breaking, underhanded tactics to attract students, a failure to provide for students with disabilities, and a total lack of real accountability.
That’s the story in Nashville. It’s not a new story.
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