Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants

[Panich52]

PHILADELPHIA: Protesters from Youth United for Change and Action United disrupted a meeting of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to stop the approval of 34 new charter schools. In the end, only 5 new charters were approved, and though the 29 rejected applications can be appealed to a new state commission, the night was a victory for advocates of better oversight of the charter school industry.

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[chillfactor]

1. I teach in the charter school is New Mexico..

I love them.....kids much more better behaved in charter schools then the public schools....public schools are 90% controlling behavior problems, 10% teaching....perhaps all states are not like this but were I live I will take charter schools over public schools any day...

[TeacherB87]

2. You know why that is right?

Because charter schools can accept and kick out whichever students they want. Unless you think kids that have behavior problems shouldn't get an education, I don't understand how charter schools can seem like a sustainable model for education. We need to find educational solutions in this country that help ALL of our kids. I didn't get into teaching to avoid difficulty. I got into teaching to face it head-on and deal with it. That's why I will ALWAYS choose public schools over charter schools.

[madfloridian]

3. When I got charter/magnet school "rejects" back in class....they had no confidence in themselves.

We had a lot of ego-building to do. They no longer thought they were worthy.

Thanks for your post. It is so true. Charter schools send their "problems" back to the public schools and often the money does NOT follow the student back.

And these schools are funded by taxpayers but have few oversights.