Getting education reform right [washingtonpost.com]
By Valerie Strauss, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, January 6, 2022 The recent announcement by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg that he was donating $750 million to help expand charter schools in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas sparked another round of discussion in parts of the education world about the best way to improve public schools. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed , Bloomberg declared that “American public education is broken” and that charter schools — which are publicly funded but...