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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]another incoherent editorial from the Washington Post.

The whole point of charters is that they are forced to compete for students (and thus funding) and that this competitive pressure is what drives the charters to perform.

Encouraging greater collaboration with DCPS is completely counter to this fundamental principle.

And at the same time, why on earth would DCPS want this to succeed?

Trying to force parties to collaborate when it is against their interest is doomed to fail.

The Washington Post's local editorials are a joke.  I can't believe anyone takes them seriously.[/quote]

The whole point if charters was NOT competition.  That has been a fundamental misunderstanding.  Charters were supposed to be labs for testing new ideas to integrate into public schools.

[i]In a 1988 address, Mr. Shanker outlined an idea for a new kind of public school where teachers could experiment with fresh and innovative ways of reaching students. Mr. Shanker estimated that only one-fifth of American students were well served by traditional classrooms. In charter schools, teachers would be given the opportunity to draw upon their expertise to create high-performing educational laboratories from which the traditional public schools could learn.[/i] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/opinion/sunday/albert-shanker-the-original-charter-school-visionary.html?_r=0[/quote]

And how many of the ideas in the DC charters has DCPS even looked at or tried to replicate? Increased investment in dual langauge/immersion programs is all I've seen. [/quote]

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