Critics of charter-school growth apparently can’t help themselves. Rather than inform, they mislead.
In a debate this week between the two candidates “In about 10 years, the entire district is at the risk of [being] privatized.”
He was talking about charter schools, which are not private but public schools that are fully accountable to the district. Some raise outside money, but then so do the district and individual schools. Some are part of national networks, but since when is it wrong to take successful models and replicate them elsewhere?
Yes, the Denver board has expanded the reach of charters. The DSST charter group, for example, could have 22 schools by 2024-25 — meaning as many as one in four Denver high school students could attend a DSST program.
But that’s only because DSST has a proven record of consistent high achievement.
Not exactly scandalous.
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