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Nation's educators watching first year of Kansas City's charter schools.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Kansas City's new charter schools experiment is among the more aggressive in the nation. That has parents and educators both excited and worried.
This summer and fall, 15 of the independently operated schools will open in the city. According to the Center for Education Reform, a nonprofit group that advocates school choice, no other district in the country has opened that many schools so soon after they were authorized by state law.
But the plunge into charter schools comes with questions: Are too many of the schools opening too fast? Is the new law too loosely written? Does the law lack proper safeguards for students and the state money the schools will spend?
Missouri Education Commissioner Robert Bartman sent letters last week to the
charter school sponsors encouraging caution.
``With the academic success and physical safety of students as its top priority, the state board asks that you encourage schools that are not completely ready to receive students to delay opening until the 2000-2001 school year,'' Bartman wrote.
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