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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington has many different schools and no charters. They all fall under one school system though and have oversight and shared resources. Charter schools are very inefficient and have the tendency to be uneven. As part of no child left behind, unfailing school requires children to have the option of attending a different school. With this in place, I don't see the need for charters and I don't understand how legally we can allow public money be spent towards religious schools in a country that separates religion from government. [/quote]

Perhaps the possibility of charters will lead APS to gets its act together and address the low performance of so many schools in South Arlington. But, knowing APS, they'll just assume charters will be part of the solution to their overcrowding crisis, and do nothing.[/quote]

APS offers choices already and many south Arlington families use them. A large proportion of Arlington children already attend private school as well. I have never heard a good explanation of how competition from private charters will "help" solve the problems of high levels of child poverty, high proportions of children who do not start school speaking English, significant special education populations, and frequent student turnover. Arlington puts disproportionate resources into schools with students with higher needs, well beyond what any charter funding formula could sustain. I have looked for more information on how charters really help -- DC, with its high charter enrollment is a great example -- but private schools do not seem to be better at educating high need children and mathematically I don't see how removing average per student spending from the system will help (when in reality there are two or three low cost students and one high need student who "average" out to the reported per pupil cost--take out the easy students and the average spending and you are way overpaying.)[/quote]

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