ADBy Kevin WelnerPost columnist Jay Mathews recently published a piece he titled, “Can charter schools pick the best students? A charter school’s refusal to backfill an open seat allows the charter to avoid midyear disruption and avoid more transient students. Consider here the comment made by Michael Petrilli of the Fordham Institute, a fervent advocate of charter schools. But the end result is the same, and it has very real implications for how charter schools fit within our educational system. Charter advocates insist that these are “public charter schools,” but their publicness is undermined every time they evade their responsibility to serve all families in their communities.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2021 19:20 UTC