Education

charter schools. It means you can't prohibit them.

CHARTER SCHOOL IF THEY ARE PUBLICLY FUNDED HAVE TO DO THE SAME TESTING. Excessive testing is part of the education deform plan, MANDATED by the education deformers, it's not something parents are trying to escape by going to charters. That tracking system RTTT MANDATES is about tracking TEST SCORES, MORE AND MORE TEST SCORES, FROM PRE-KINDERGARTEN TO COLLEGE, what did you think it was for?

STATES NO LONGER ARE BEHOLDEN TO NCLB CRITERIA AND CAN OPT OUT AND CREATE THEIR OWN SET OF STANDARDS. Failing schools can also simply demonstrate improvement vs. demand every student pass a federally mandated test.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20110710-503544.html

Private schools are ALREADY quite free to experiment. What I am against is calling privatization of public schools & diversion of public monies "experimentation". There's nothing charters do that can't be done within the existing paradigm of public schooling. NOTHING. AND BETTER.

Then, your position should be demonstrated, ultimately. Though, I don't see much interest among public schools in radical change. I know of only one local school that adopted an alternate model within the school. This was a brainchild of a long time principal. When he left, so did the philosophy he employed.

There is no royal road to improving education outcomes for all except by improving economic outcomes for all, & I'm sick to death of the hypocritical pretense that there is.

Huh?

Not saying *you* are a hypocrite, saying that the people designing these policies are.

I think we agree on more than you know. I am opposed to teaching to the test. And, I am also proponent of educational experimentation and freedom within the public schools. I oppose weakening teachers unions and support adequate funding for smaller class sizes etc.