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A sibling comment describes charters as "less accountable", and that's sometimes true from the perspective of the government. I meant that they are more accoun
by microcolonel 7y ago
A sibling comment describes charters as "less accountable", and that's sometimes true from the perspective of the government.
I meant that they are more accountable to the students and their guardians, which to me seems more likely to have a positive impact. The government has an incentive to misrepresent the performance of state schools.
- the_af 7y agoWhat matters is the state, not the government. The government is only a part of the state. Direct accountability limited only to the students and their guardians is not necessarily a good thing. For example, a school which excluded certain socioeconomic classes of students may be totally accountable to the students it did accept -- but it wouldn't be right or democratic.
- microcolonel 7y ago> For example, a school which excluded certain socioeconomic classes of students. But this is not even an option for what we're talking about.