Re: RE: Re: school vouchers

2000-03-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Wasn't the charter for the Edison school in San Franciso given to the Edison Corp. under the cover of a charter? "Max B. Sawicky" wrote: The charter thing is a little more ambiguous than it is being made out to be. It is quite possible under charter systems for the teachers in a school, or

Re: Re: Re: school vouchers

2000-03-15 Thread JKSCHW
What's wrong with charter schools? No standards, no unions, no minimal safeguards of educational quality. A private charter school in Chi-town, nonunion of course, failed, hadn't kept adequate records for several years. the kids in it lost two years. How many of the minority youth there do you

RE: Re: Re: school vouchers

2000-03-15 Thread Max Sawicky
. . . I don't get the judge's argument against vouchers, BTW. My son goes to a non-profit "non-public school" because of his learning disability (mild autism) and it's paid for by the public school system. It seems to me that the judge is knocking down that kind of deal. . . . You've got

Re: Re: Re: Re: school vouchers

2000-03-15 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:07 PM 3/15/00 -0500, you wrote: What's wrong with charter schools? No standards, no unions, no minimal safeguards of educational quality. A private charter school in Chi-town, nonunion of course, failed, hadn't kept adequate records for several years. the kids in it lost two years. How