Pros and Cons of Charter Schools

[Anonymous]

Hello

I'm an Editor at NPR, looking to do a story on the pros and cons of charter schools. I am looking for parents who would like to talk about why they are against charter schools, and why they prefer the public school system.

Or, any parents who are for charter schools, and why parents decided to try them. What have been your results?
I'm Jennifer, and I am at 202-513-2852, or [e-mail]


Thanks so much!

[Anonymous]

Jennifer, it is good to explore these options in the media--but why must parents who have tried one be 'against' the others. Clearly we made a choice of one over the other, but --for example--we friends of charter schools are for choice in urban schools. We wish charters, independents and public schools well. Just wish to have the option of choice. I hope you can work that angle into your story when you 'frame' it. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I'm not OP but maybe they already have enough people expressing pro charter sentiments for the piece. They're easy to find, in charter schools. I would think that finding people who prefer regular public to charter would be might hard to do. (I'm a journalist.) So the query is probably more a function of sourcing ease than bias.y

[Anonymous]

Since many families have kids in several types of schools, perhaps the "angle" could be a focus on multi-school type families? Those who've had to go through all the choices?

It's less sexy than the charter vs public debate, but it might be enlightening for people to hear what it means to deal with a city with so many choices. Like the schlepping to open houses, lotteries, waiting for waitlist changes, keeping track of the principal merry go round, charter school building changes, public school security issues, etc. etc. etc.

Good luck. I love NPR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello

I'm an Editor at NPR, looking to do a story on the pros and cons of charter schools. I am looking for parents who would like to talk about why they are against charter schools, and why they prefer the public school system.

Or, any parents who are for charter schools, and why parents decided to try them. What have been your results?
I'm Jennifer, and I am at 202-513-2852, or [e-mail]


Thanks so much!

Charter schools ARE public schools. You do understand that, don't you? Otherwise this piece is going to a biased piece of drivel unworthy of any intelligent listener's time.