Texas Education Commissioner Ups Charter Cap
Charter school cap? What cap?
Rebuffed by the Legislature last session in his attempt to raise the state cap on the number of charter schools (now set at 215), state Education Commissioner Robert Scott then took a closer reading of the law — and found a way to add scores of new charter schools, with or without legislative blessing.
His strategy is twofold. First, he plans to grant high-performing charters carte blanche to add schools under their existing agreements, without even asking his agency. Second, Scott will request that charter operators who currently hold multiple charters — one for each school — return ...
Comments (4)
William Pate II
There's a lot of bias in this article.
For instance, Ms. Rapoport writes, ". . .after several charters had failed to follow proper financial and accountability practices,” she alleges. That's not an allegation. That's a fact. Charter operators have gone to prison for criminal financial and accountability practices.
And:
"The law’s silence on the question of multiple schools under one charter allows vast wiggle room that Scott plans to exploit. Still, the backlash to his strategy has been overblown and misunderstands the general modus operandi of successful charter operators, such as KIPP, YES Prep and Uplift Education, which receive the first waiver from Scott to expand at will."
So far we've been told the Tribune will remain as objective as possible. These are some stark errors. I expect and hope for better from the Trib.
DAnderson
Thank you Robert Scott for fighting for the children of texas. We are 41st in the nation in education and the democratic party, in and effort to protect it's special interest teachers union, fights against the children of texas. Commissioner Scott thank you.
Eugene
I wish the D's would be this creative in interpreting rules & regulations and showing this sort of initiative. Whether or not you agree with expanding charters, since he does and his party does, he just scored
jrj
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502585.html