The Education Wars: Charter Schools

Of course charter schools are nothing but a tool for the privatizers, certainly a far cry from what Al Shanker once envisioned them to be:

The original intent of charter schools, to increase the professional autonomy of teachers so they could explore innovative ways to educate children and youth, has given way to other agendas that have grafted onto the movement.

Increasingly, charter school policies have been influenced by market ideology that treats the movement as a vehicle for privatizing public schools.

Research reveals that, in practice, charter school “innovations” too often occur more on the management side than on the educational side of schooling.

And despite anecdotal reports of local successes, overall, charter school students perform no better than non-charter public school students.

Teachers are even more abused in charter schools.