In a guest column written by the educational coordinator of a local charter school, the headline is taken from the text, that charters are as public as state parks.
That’s an interesting if totally inaccurate comparison. When was a state park ever turned over to individuals or, more likely, a corporation, to be financed by the state but run as a profit center, with the right to grant or deny access to citizens of the state?
No matter how often he repeats it, charter schools are not public schools. The authors who he criticizes are correct — the cap on new charter schools should not be lifted.
Richard Aronstein
Northampton