Vouchers, Charters and Public School Accountability

Eduwonk rounds up a number of interesting comments on Milwaukee's voucher program, including this:

Update: Concerning public accountability, one reader writes:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m not defending these voucher schools, or any schools that hide from legitimate public oversight. But I’ve spent years now working on projects that required interviews with school personnel, site visits, documentation from the central office, etc., etc. And if you think that refusing to submit to outside evaluation is specifically or even primarily a problem of private/voucher schools, you’re nuts. There’s no stonewaller like the public school stonewaller. Administrative assistants are the worst. And don’t give me all that FERPA xxxx, either; they just don’t want people snooping around.

That's a fair enough point, it's not just a voucher school problem (though not every public school stonewalls either).

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 23, 2005 9:21 AM
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