Fixing D.C.’s Schools: The Charter Experiment

Dan Keating & Theola Labbe-DeBose:

A 2008 Post review finds that charter schools are outperforming public schools.

NPR:

As part of the program’s ongoing series focusing on education, host Michel Martin talks to Kavitha Cardoza, a reporter for NPR member station WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C.
Cardoza explains a significant development in the education world: recent test scores of public school children in the nation’s capital notably surpassed their charter school counterparts, adding yet another layer to the national debate on the value of charter schools vs. public schools.