Comments on: Charters can’t meet demand http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/ny-charters-cant-meet-demand/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/ny-charters-cant-meet-demand/#comment-45722 Chris Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:50:47 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8566#comment-45722 does NY allow students to apply to more than 1 charter? otherwise there is some double-counting in the aggregate: article says "42,093 applications for 8,468 spots" on the other hand, it should be accurate for individual schools: 3% seems like the Icahn facility implies that they should open a 2nd 3rd 4th (and so on) school. does NY allow students to apply to more than 1 charter?

otherwise there is some double-counting in the aggregate: article says “42,093 applications for 8,468 spots”

on the other hand, it should be accurate for individual schools: 3% seems like the Icahn facility implies that they should open a 2nd 3rd 4th (and so on) school.

]]> By: MTheads http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/ny-charters-cant-meet-demand/#comment-45721 MTheads Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:37:26 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8566#comment-45721 Even more annoying is that anti-choice proponents use the fact that charters provide a better education for only a fraction of students to argue that charters are inherently unfair because they leave behind most students. Even more annoying is that anti-choice proponents use the fact that charters provide a better education for only a fraction of students to argue that charters are inherently unfair because they leave behind most students.

]]> By: allen http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/ny-charters-cant-meet-demand/#comment-45720 allen Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:47:48 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8566#comment-45720 > Maybe New York needs to let charter schools expand to meet the demand. Now that's just crazy talk! All right-thinking people know that there's only one proper way to do public education and that's within the warm, comforting confines of a school district. Without a central office staff to dictate the need to produce torrents of never-read paperwork and constantly modify the curriculum how could education, or whatever it is they're supposed to be doing in all those dreary school buildings, get done? > Maybe New York needs to let charter schools expand to meet the demand.

Now that’s just crazy talk! All right-thinking people know that there’s only one proper way to do public education and that’s within the warm, comforting confines of a school district.

Without a central office staff to dictate the need to produce torrents of never-read paperwork and constantly modify the curriculum how could education, or whatever it is they’re supposed to be doing in all those dreary school buildings, get done?

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