Charter School Debate Round Up
You probably don't know what to do with yourself until 4:30 today. If you're inclined to blow off your honey-do list, perhaps you'd care to join the growing debate about charter schools that's raging across the Garden State.
Start with Tom Moran's piece in the Star-Ledger, which takes us to a "high performing" charter in Jersey City. Give Moran some credit for at least acknowledging the other side of the debate; unfortunately, even though he grants that charters have limited scalability, he's still sides with Chris Christie's plan for charter expansion.
I take on his example, however, at Jersey Jazzman, and show that, to a large extent, charter school "successes" can often be accounted for by the fact that charters serve a different student population than surrounding neighborhood schools:
May I make a suggestion, Tom? For your next piece, do what Michael Winerip of the NY Times
