The solution is clear: school choice, whether it's via "opportunity scholarships" (a.k.a. vouchers) or charter schools.
With a more rational retirement system, many more charter schools would give up DB pensions voluntarily.
States also have good reasons for wanting charter schools to participate in defined-benefit pensions.
The principal, Doris Roche-Hicks, had made no secret of her prior opposition to charter schools.
Similarly, the Walton Family Foundation has made charter schools one of their top priorities.
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Also on the table are Republican-favored education proposals like school vouchers, character education and charter schools.
The cynical wonder if he is merely emulating his rivals' support for charter schools.
Michigan and a handful of other states have made real progress with charter schools.
Across the country, charter schools fair much worse than traditional public schools on national tests.
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After all, charter schools have curriculums and rules of operation that differ from traditional public schools.
Performance-based pay drives a culture of success with educators in charter schools, creating excellence among educators.
We want to learn from successful charter schools where students can take advanced and college-level courses.
In many states education unions and bureaucrats are waging a de facto war against charter schools.
Some popular American charter schools now offer longer school days and shorter summer holidays.
These problems are also much in evidence in three Gulen charter schools in Fulton County, Ga.
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Charter schools in Chicago employ non-union teachers, and some also receive funding from non-profits.
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Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat and supporter of charter schools, declined to comment on the legislation.
That lack of job security has turned teachers against charter schools in many cities.
Michigan has scores of successful charter schools, and North Carolina has a growing number.
There is no shortage of theories on why removing teachers unions makes charter schools more effective.
As the city emphasized overnight, charter schools are open today, and students are continuing with classes.
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The demand for places in charter schools and even in magnet schools attests to this.
All this money makes apples-to-apples comparisons between traditional public schools and charter schools very difficult.
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This is, not to put to fine an edge on it, exactly what charter schools do.
Maybe this is because my experience with charter schools has been, by and large, fairly positive.
Sure, some excellent charter schools have really stellar records with kids in poor areas.
Although charter schools have won support from across the political spectrum, they have always attracted controversy.
Teachers' unions, for example, can blame only themselves for the rise of charter schools.
The city is now a living education laboratory, with more charter schools than non-charters.
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Amid this landscape of desperation, charter schools often serve as lone, luminous beacons of hope.
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