John Danahy
jdanahy@turbonet.com
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From: Inclusion in Moscow <inclusio@moscow.com>
To: 'vision2020@moscow.com'
Subject: Charter Schools
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 8:07 PM
I have a question about the charter schools and wondering if someone could
help clarify this for me.
Why do 60% of the teachers and 60% of the parents or guardians need to
agree to start a charter school? It seems as if a person would have to
lobby the parent's and teachers to start one. Thus, who ever has the best
marketing plan or lobbying plan gets to start a charter school - not
necessarily good schools.
I don't think we want the randomness there is in Arizona where if you have
a pulse you can get a license to start a school, but I think we should look
at other criteria to start a school. There may be smaller groups of
parent's who want to start a school, have a good model that would be
effective and would have to spend a lot of time and money just to get one
going. Is this necessary? What about people who don't have a good plan
for a school but have an excellent lobbying campaign?
Thanks
Katrina
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