Oped: School Choice

http://www.necn.com/02/09/12/Boston-Superintendent-Parents-shouldnt-w/landing_health.html?blockID=648384&feedID=8368 (NECN: Alison King) – “In September, after waiting far too long for congress to act, I announced that my administration would take steps to reform no child left behind on our own,” said President Obama on Thursday. The result?  President Obama...

http://boston.com/community/blogs/rock_the_schoolhouse/2012/01/chipping_away_at_charter_schoo.html Charter school approvals are granted in February.  They shouldn’t be. They should have been granted on January 16th this year–Martin Luther King Day–for one simple reason: No education policy change has done more in Massachusetts to alleviate achievement gaps than charters. ...