Apples to apples
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 By Mike Maurer
The state is ordering two charter schools closed for being chronic poor-performers. On the surface, that’s well and good. At least one of the schools, though, was a special education school, which raises questions well-rehearsed by the public district schools about what this performance data actually means. When such real consequences hit a public school, do they actually close? Color me skeptical. In fact, let’s pose that question: How many public district schools of similar performance have closed? Or are they all above average?
Tags: Charter Schools, Education, testing
