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News & ArtsWednesday, February 1, 2012
Education / Olympia Charter School Mania Is Back
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM
- Mary Traverse
As Goldy reports in this week's paper, we've already rejected them three times in Washington State, and data show traditional public schools outperforming them, but now charter schools have wealthy backers and a new legislative push Olympia.
Few education-reform proposals evoke as much passion on both sides of the issue as charter schools. Or as much divisive, absurd rhetoric<: "This really is sorta Washington State's bridge at Selma moment," Representative Glenn Anderson (R-Fall City) testified at a January 20 committee hearing, comparing a bill on charter schools to a 1965 civil rights march near Selma, Alabama, in which hundreds of nonviolent marchers were bloodied by police beatings.
Read the entire piece. And check out this infographic primer on charter schools by Marley Zeno.
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