http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102633.html
D.C. Board of Education members are discussing a proposal to shift charter school monitoring responsibilities to Superintendent Clifford Janey. Under the proposal, which will be discussed further at a public hearing next month, the board's executive director for charter schools would report to Janey, who would report to the board. The Board of Education oversees 18 of the 52 charter schools in the city; several of these have been plagued by low academic achievement and high suspension and expulsion rates. The change would "put greater resources in the charter school office and in the charter schools," said a board member. Robert Cane, director of Friends of Choice in Urban Schools, a charter school advocacy group, opposes the idea and argues that the board should get out of the chartering business if it feels it can no longer handle that function. The city’s other 34 charter schools are monitored by the D.C. Public Charter School Board.
Source: Washington Post (free registration required)
Date: 09/21/2005
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