Opinion: Charter schools – the promise vs the reality
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 8, 2023
The Connecticut legislature is about to fund additional charter schools. As a retired principal of a non-charter public school, I am concerned about the negative impact the charter school movement has imposed on our urban school districts.
It may surprise people to know that Albert Shankar, Past President of the American Federation of Teachers, was a proponent of charter schools. In a 1988 address, he outlined an idea for a new kind of public school where teachers could experiment with fresh and innovative ways of reaching students. These schools could serve as “educational laboratories” from which . . .
