Excellent article by by Tom James at Crosscut.
Robin Lake head of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, at the University of Washington has conducted numerous studies of charter schools nationwide.
“There’s a certain segment of folks who really want their own space. Who really want to teach in their own way, and do it in a way that’s free of bureaucracy.”
Even if Washington’s charter schools manage to keep their doors open for now, the next big question could be whether the state constitution is fundamentally opposed to that exact idea.