Last fall, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Education tried to play a statistical trick to boost the proportion of charter schools that made Adequate Yearly Progress. He wanted to treat each one as a school district. The U.S. Department of Education said that he could not judge charter schools by laxer rules than district schools.
Now the results are in, and the proportion of charters making AYP dropped from 49% to 28%.
Not a single cyber charter met AYP.
And it is clear why secretary Tomalis wanted to change rpthe reporting rules for charters.
Oh well. So much for bop bop bop bop bop to the top.
Charters original claims were that they were Public schools and made up of students representing the communities. We have shown different and they are now admitting to be Private schools that do indeed skim students, trying to keep only the best. They still feel that they have to cheat with the statistics to keep their heads above water.
The question is with their skimming and their private corporate run schools, why don’t all the Charters have better results than Public schools?
This is exactly my question.
Why don’t all the charters have better scores on everything than the public schools?
Could it be the teachers?
Is there perhaps some value in experienced, well trained, dedicated, career teachers?
No, can’t be it.
Perish the thought!
Soon we’ll be able to lead with this advocacy ad in major news outlets–”Charter Schools Have Failed–Let Our Public Schools Do the Job”…
Don’t forget that Obama and Duncan are in on this game as they are great enablers of privatization and corporatization of public schools and always have been. Do your research.
http://thenotebook.org/blog/135540/philly-charters-see-ayp-status-downgraded
Here is the story, in more detail, from the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. Take a gander at the KIPP outcomes.
What gets me is that even when they try to control the population that enters the charters they still don’t do well. You’d think they would be able to perform much better due to being able to screen students. What a scam.
Of course Charters aren’t doing better and they don’t care, hey it’s CHEAPER!!!
Sorry feeling so cynical lately.