Kathleen Gibbons, a Rocklin parent whose child attends a public virtual school, is a board member of California Parents for Public Virtual Education. She is responding to the Jan. 2 editorial “Charter schools should embrace accountability,” which stated: “The California Charter Schools Association, in setting its own higher standard for measuring charter schools, has started a lively dialogue centered on the right thing – student performance and how to measure it.”
Last month, the California Charter Schools Association announced an initiative that would have tragic ramifications for some public charter schools. Under this proposal, any charter school failing to meet the association’s arbitrary standards would not be permitted to renew its charter. After close examination, though, the educational community may want to rethink CCSA’s assessment and its effort to limit parental choice under the guise of accountability.
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