Commentary
Charter Schools
Suspending belief
Editor's note: This is the second entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices. The first post post is here.
Editor's note: This is the second entry in our forum on charter school discipline practices. The first post post is here.
Over the last few months, my work on ESSA implementation and my thinking about new systems of urban schools have come together. I have a new hypothesis. And I think it has some interesting implications.
Shortly after Ohio lawmakers enacted a new voucher program in 2005, the state budget office wrote in its fiscal analysis, “The Educational Choice Scholarships are not only intended to offer another route for student success, but also to impel the administration and teaching staff of a failing school building to improve upon their students’ academic performance.” As economist M