Does the charter movement stimulate reform or spur more privatization?
Rethinking SchoolsPosted: October 1st, 2008 by R. Lee Wrights
Author: Leigh Dingerson, Barbara Miner, Bob Peterson, and Stephanie Walters
“In the last two decades, charter schools have emerged as one of the dominant reforms in public education in the United States. While desegregation and magnet schools were hallmarks of education reform in the 1970s and into the 1980s, by the end of the century charter schools had eclipsed such initiatives to take center stage. From only a handful of schools in the early 1990s, by the 2006–07 school year there were more than 4,000 charter schools enrolling more than a million students in 40 states and the District of Columbia.” (09/08)
