By: Chiara

In reply to Donna.

I don’t think there will be any regulation of charters out of DC. Even those who admit that there are bad charter schools make suggestions that are NOT regulation but instead simply more market-based mechanisms, more “relinquishment”.

This is Arne Duncan, the nations most prominent charter school promoter:

ARNE DUNCAN: The CREDO report last week was absolutely a wake-up call, even if you dispute some of its conclusions or its language. The charter movement is putting itself at risk by allowing too many second-rate and even third-rate schools to continue to exist. Your goal should always be quality, not quantity.
Charter authorizers need to do a better job of holding schools accountable, and the charter schools need to support them loudly and sincerely. I absolutely applaud the work that the Alliance is doing with the National Association of Charter Schools Authorizers to strengthen academic and operational quality. We need that. We also need to be willing to hold low-performing charters accountable.

That’s not regulation. He’s suggesting that charter authorizers “do a better job”. This is from the US Department of Education in a Democratic administration. This is as far as the DC “conversation” goes on regulating charters.

If there’s any regulation of charters, it will come from the states. DC is hopeless.

They don’t regulate for-profit colleges now, and MOST of that funding is federally-subsidized. How are they going to regulate thousands of K-12 schools in 48 states?

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