Excellence In Government…Burr In The Saddle…

Those pesky charter schools! Recall that a few years back Minnesota’s charter school law, the nation’s first, won the Harvard Innovations In American Government Award. Well this year Mayor Bart Peterson’s charter school initiative is among the 18-finalists…

Also, Fordham Foundation reports that charter school authorizers are starting to really get it together. That’s in no small part because of the hard work these guys have been quietly doing. Too often chartering is seen as a deregulatory strategy that lessens the burdens on public agencies. In fact, it’s merely a policy strategy that changes the regulatory emphasis and doing it well requires a lot of attention and diligence.

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