Enter one of the most path-breaking solutions in the history of public education: charter schools. In almost every place they’ve opened, charter schools have created a revolution in educational excellence, especially for so many of our nation’s most vulnerable students. Nevertheless, the indisputable academic results that charter schools produce in proficiency and progress have made them sensibly embraced by leaders in both parties. Alas, on Saturday we can expect charters schools to either have a starring role – as the lead villain, of course – or just be ignored. Prior to charter schools starting, there were no performance indexes for any school in the Pennsylvania’s schools, or elsewhere.

Source: Forbes December 14, 2019 17:05 UTC