It may sound counterintuitive, but two Philadelphia organizations that favor expanding successful charter schools are calling for changes to make it easier to close charters with poor academic track records.
In a position paper scheduled to be released Friday, the Philadelphia Charters for Excellence and the advocacy arm of the Philadelphia School Partnership call on the School Reform Commission and the legislature to streamline the closing of charters that are chronically low performers.
Now, they say, the process can drag on for years “while students attending these low-performing schools continue to receive a substandard education.”
Equal governance standards for the far more numerous traditional government schools?