Charter School Tsunami
Three charter school stories of note in three different states:
* Joe Nathan’s Center for School Change discovers Minnesota has nearly tripled its charter school enrollment since 2001-02. A record 28,206 students now attend charters in the state.
* We may see a similar boom in Rhode Island, where the 2004 union-sponsored charter school moratorium will finally lapse on June 30. About 3,100 Rhode Island students attend charters, and another 2,500 remain on waiting lists.
* State Sen. Charles L. Copeland released to the public a leaked Delaware State Education Association report outlining union strategy for limiting charter schools in the state. DSEA hired a Washington DC consulting firm to advise them on “convincing the public to think twice about allowing the continued expansion of charter schools.”
This is just a hunch right now, but DSEA is a small affiliate that probably doesn’t have thousands of dollars lying around to throw at pricey DC consulting firms. I’ll bet there was an NEA grant behind this.
