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Can you read?(portrayal of charter schools in the media)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 17
THE New York Times treats as the topmost news item of the day a report that students at (most) charter schools are doing worse than students at (most) public schools. These are data put together on fourth-grade students. The question asked was: How well are they reading?
We are told that the public school students are one half-year ahead of the charter-school students. This is certainly headline news, and what makes it a headline is that the findings are so unexpected. If the poll had established that students do better at charter schools, that news would have got nowhere on the front page. Why? Because it would merely confirm what the reader would assume, or intuit from the basic facts.
A charter school operates outside the authority of the school board. If dissatisfied parents join forces and hire a lawyer to walk them through the bureaucratic paces, they can organize a charter school. The hiring of teachers and arrangement of the curriculum would be left to the organizing council, and lo! a charter school has been founded. There are about 3,000 of these, 88,000 public schools, and the new federal program called No Child Left Behind anticipates a growth in the charter schools corresponding to the growth of the number of public schools that are shut down because they perform so poorly.
On the same day that this story broke, a Florida court narrowly (2-1) disallowed a voucher program that permits students to attend religious schools. To permit vouchers, said the court, flouts the provision of the Florida state constitution forbidding state money to religious schools.
There are huge mountains and valleys of thought that distinguish between supporting a religion and granting a voucher to a student who uses it to attend a school in which religion is also taught. These are qualifications acknowledged by the Supreme Court, and the ruling in Tallahassee may not last till the next hurricane. Gov. Jeb Bush has ordered an appeal, the school will proceed as before until ...
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