Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department

Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by sokoloff on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:24PM (#37860947)

It seems like a charter school that develops a reputation for low quality is a self-solving problem in a way that a public school which develops the same reputation is (currently) not.

One goes out of business; the other goes along indefinitely, with perhaps the wealthiest parents nearby withdrawing their kids, but most families and children are forced to endure it or move away.

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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by femiagbabiaka on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:34PM (#37861084)

Wrong: because people have other motivations for putting kids in charter schools than seeking the highest level of quality education. As with everything in America, it always comes back to ideology. Don’t want your kids learning certain histories? Conservative charter school. Want your kids to go to mass every Friday? Catholic charter school. In fact, conservative Christians in America led the wave of charter school adoption. If you think public school STEM education is bad..

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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by halfnormalform on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:58PM (#37863710)

The feedback loop in education is several years long. Before a charter school develops a bad reputation, they just change their name, put up a banner declaring "Under New Management" and continue right along with better PR.

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Re:Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Dep... by sokoloff on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:08PM (#37865724)

What happens to a failing public school? It keeps the same name, but adds “now Title I with an even larger budget”.

It’s not clear that that’s in any way better and I think is worse.

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