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[quote=Anonymous]I think Kaya Henderson was expressing frustration with the things she can't control in DCPS but that Charters don't have to struggle with.  She already said a while ago that she wished DCPS could start their own charters.  It's unfair to expect her or anyone to perform miracle turn-arounds in schools where union rules favor the status quo, and where school boundaries maintain racial and economic segregation.  There can be no hiring of subject-matter experts without teaching credentials, no asking additional after-school hours of the teachers, none of the things that the KIPPs and the Latins and the BasisDCs can do that are especially important during the watershed middle-school years.  I think she is facing an impossible task and coming to a logical conclusion.  I also think that it is not so terrible for DC.  Everyone is worried about the disappearance of public education, but Charters are public.  When finally there are enough Charters for everyone who wants to attend them, people will start sending their kids to the one in their neighborhood.[/quote]

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