The Idaho State Journal's worthless education "news" writer is at it again. Last time around he ominously suggested that the business community and colleges wanted higher standards in the maths and sciences because they stood to financially benefit (because, after all, high tech employers and colleges have no other interest in an educated population coming out of high school).

This time around the subject is expanding the charter schools, which Boyd is pretty transparently skeptical of.
The number of paragraphs dedicated to voicing some concerns about the program: 11
The number of paragraphs dedicated to either defending the above skepticism, defending the expansion, or supporting it: 3

The number of quotes from charter schools administrators: 3
The number of charter school administrator quotes that support of the expansion: 1
The number of charter school administrator quotes that promote skepticism of the expansion: 2

The one quote supportive of the expansion: "I struggle to understand the criticism about accountability," [Pocatello charter school administrator Martha Martin] said.

And just for the heck of it, I will point out a statistic that the article doesn't mention:
Number of parents forced to send their kids to these "unaccountable" charter schools: 0

To be blunt, I don't know a great deal about the state of Idaho's charter schools. They may be gawd-awful and worthy of the skepticism heaped on them. But I find it interesting that according to educationists, a school that's accountable only to parents (who can pull their kids out at any time) is de facto less worthy than one that's not accountable to parents (who can't pull their kids out) at all but is accountable to school district administrators.