Charter Schools. Say those two words in a meeting with the Board of Education of most school districts, and the room temperature will seemingly drop 20 degrees. Another word with the same impact is ‘vouchers’.
Why is it that numerous private schools can thrive on tuition rates that are between 60-70% of what our public schools receive per pupil, and yet, the private schools seem to turn out students so much better prepared than the public schools?
Dr. Betty Horton has been attempting to establish a charter school inside the USD 501 district for quite some time, to address the problems that USD 501 has experienced educating our special needs children, and yet, despite her outstanding credentials, the Board of Education has seen fit to deny the permit to establish the charter school.
Would anyone on the BoE like to explain the reasoning behind the denial?
The research that I have seen shows me that attaching state education funding to the student rather than to the school, and allowing the student to attend the school of his/her choice, whether public or private, would result in better quality of education, higher test scores, and a significant lessening in the number of high school dropouts.
The only people who it generally seems are against allowing our parents their choice of schools are those who profit directly from the lack of competition. The school district administrators.
Maybe it is time for us to look more closely at why our K-12 education is quickly closing in on what a college education used to cost.
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