I like this idea. I think that charter schools seem well-situated to influence how we hold public schools accountable. I wonder if we should give a handful of charter authorizers the flexibility to enact alternative approaches to public school accountability with their charter schools. It seems to me, though, that any alternative approach will still have to incorporate certain aspects of NCLB's current accountability/AYP framework: annual testing, disaggregation of data and the timeline of interventions and sanctions. Above and beyond these items, though, charter authorizers would define AYP (perhaps on value-added terms in addition to absolute terms) as well as incorporate addtional, yet measurable, accountability indicators into their system.
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Aren't we the R&D of public ed? by Lynanne Fowle
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