The Blob?s new game, at work now in Illinois, is to pay lip service to charter schools by allowing them for special ed or disruptive students. Then the school boards get to boast that the test scores of their own conventional schools have gone up (because they don?t have to average in the weakest kids who?ve been put in charters), but the charter school scores have not. When some of these charter schools close, the establishment can say, ?See! They don?t work!? Of course the fact that six percent of charter schools have been shut down, cited by critics as a sign of failure, is actually an indication that the idea is working. Unlike most conventional schools, charters actually have to perform to survive.
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