Who Will Rescue America's Schools

Letters to the New York Times:

Kudos to Gail Collins for highlighting the disastrous consequences of children's having to attend lotteries to learn whether they won a coveted spot in a charter school that might save them from becoming a statistical casualty of our ailing public school system.

"Waiting for Superman" is not the first film to give life to this issue, nor will it be the last. But Ms. Collins's anger is misplaced when she tells the charters to stop holding theatrical lottery drawings. Federal and state laws require charters to conduct lotteries. And if they were not public, can you imagine the phone calls from angry parents of rejected students demanding to see proof?

Families want to be able to exercise choice rather than be confined to the schools that we might have to wait another 30 years for a Superman to fix. Thanks to the charter idea, students are better served.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 10, 2010 3:03 AM
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