LINDA SEEBACH: Charter schools as punishment?
8th Oct 2005, 03:24 GMT
(SH) - Charter schools can be many things; a safety-valve for dysfunctional school districts, a laboratory for testing new educational models or new ways of implementing existing ones. But charter schools as a punishment for educational failure? Tell me again how that's supposed to work. Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, forced conversion into a charter school is one of several possible remedies for a school that fails to meet standards. In Colorado, it's essentially the only one. State law provides that a persistently failing school, that is one that over a period of several years earns "unsatisfactory" state ratings, will be converted into a charter school. The definition is so lenient that it has been invoked only once, for Cole Middle School in Denver, which reopened in August as Cole College Prep, a part of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) network of charter schools.
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