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I agree with the general tenor of this post, but in my state districts can also charter schools.
Larry
On Jul 9, 2012, at 11:04 AM, John Denker wrote:
I realize it is conventional to speak of charter schools as being disjoint
from the public schools, but one could argue for the following taxonomy
instead:
schools
/ \
/ \
/ \
publicly private
funded & \
tested \
/ \ \
/ \ \
/ \ \
district charter truly
public public private
schools schools schools
(see also below)
As always, I don't want to argue about the terminology, and I would be
delighted if somebody could suggest some better terminology, but the
underlying point remains: I find it helpful to distinguish charter
schools from _district_ schools (rather than from "public" schools).
*) In some ways, the charter schools are unlike the district schools,
for instance in having more selective admissions and selective
retention. This is an important distinction; however ...
*) In some ways, charter schools *are* public schools; they are just
not district schools. They are public schools in the sense that
a) they are publicly funded, and
b) they are subjected to the same state-mandated high-stakes trivia
test, and have been all along (even well before NCLB came along)
http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/participation/
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