Talk:Charter Schools





Comment by David Moursund 3/5/2011
Many years ago, my local Eugene, Oregon school district began to create alternative schools. Eventually it became clear to me that this caused many of the "change agent" local education enthusiast to focus their energies on a specific alternative school, and this drew away much of the effort that could have gone into improving the overall school system.

I believe that the same thing is happening with Charter Schools both locally and nationally. The time, energy, and expertise that might help improve an entire school district is instead focused on creating one specific school and in competing for money and students for that school.