Doyle Loses On Milwaukee Mayoral Control Plan

[Dinger]

http://host.madison.com/news/state-and-regional/wisconsin/article_48ee0852-c4f6-58fe-8462-80050a6afed4.html

[hayrow]

1. After nearly 40 years of a failed experiment

From the early 1970's, the Wisconsin solution to improving public education, especially in the City of Milwaukee, was the mantra that Charter Schools were the answer. Any moron could see immediately what a disaster the Charter School B.S., if enacted, would cause. Now, Milwaukee has one of the worst public school systems in the country. Maybe it is time to reverse course and admit that the Charter School plan was a disaster, cooked up by crooked bastards, and could never have been expected to succeed, except to funnel money to the white collar criminal element in Wisconsin.

[mzteris]

2. it looks like the MPS system itself is the one

running those most of those "charter schools". Maybe therein lies the problem?

I don't know anything about which schools in Milw work and which ones don't. Is there some readily available info on how all the individual schools are doing?

[sybylla]

3. I may be wrong, but...

As I heard it, the DPI only allows public schools to open charters schools in the State of Wisconsin. Anything else is a private school.

What a "charter" buys a school district is the opportunity to experiment with alternative learning environments (online, 1-room school, montessori, etc), but it also allows the school to operate outside most regulatory and contractual roadblocks to creating this environment, including labor agreements the district already has.

If I've got the charter rules wrong, I hope someone will post to correct me and maybe elaborate.