AFT – Hot Topics – Charter Schools

AFT – Hot Topics – Charter Schools

Interesting perspective from the American Federation of Teachers:

Today, more than 2,100 schools, serving over 500,000 students, are operating in 37 states and the District of Columbia. In many instances, the original notion of teachers as innovators and education entrepreneurs to advance learning has been transformed into a rhetoric of reform by choice and competition—with improved student achievement taking a back seat to parental and student satisfaction.

There are many interesting links from this article, such as “Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Finance Systems,” “ED Report Confirms Underperformance of Charter Schools,” “The National Charter School Finance Study,” Do Charter Schools Measure Up?” and many others.

2 Responses to AFT – Hot Topics – Charter Schools

  1. Mary on September 2, 2005 at 4:31 pm

    I recommend that AFT study from 2002, “Do Charter Schools Measure Up? The Charter School Experiment After 10 years”. Not just because it’s an eye opening assessment of charter schools, but because it was done by the AFT who was a strong supporter of charter schools early on. They seem to have figured out what everyone else is slowly discovering – that charter schools are not what was promised – but instead corporate schooling at taxpayer expense with the results being – instead of education – profit for stockholders and private owners.

    Mary

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