GoBigEd

Posted 9:30 PM by Susan Darst Williams

ANOTHER BETTER WAY:
INNER-CITY L.A. CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLS
CREAM REGULAR PUBLIC SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS

Yoo hoo: how come Nebraska doesn't allow charter schools? Isn't that the solution for Benson, South, Northwest and other high schools with obvious underachievement by minority and low-income students in Omaha? SImilar to the vouchers for low-income kids in failing schools being offered in many other cities, charter schools are a good solution that so far Nebraska educators are totally ignoring, to everybody's detriment, especially low-income students.

Look at the incredibly better test scores coming out of charter high schools in low-income Los Angeles, where teachers are being paid more and expected to do more with tough-to-teach kids . . . and are coming through:

http://www.ednews.org/articles/2101/1/GREEN-DOT-PUBLIC-SCHOOLS-ACHIEVE-UNPRECEDENTED-API-TEST-SCORES/Page1.html