Charter cap could cost N.C.

The primary concern of public schools should be the students, not teacher's jobs. Opening up the cap will force the administrators to be smarter with their decisions and I don't see that as a bad thing. The public schools and charter schools can then learn from each other.

Unless you just want to continue making the actual education of young people the second, third, fourth, or fifth priority. Even Obama recognizes the valuable role charter schools can play as an addition, not a replacement.

Hey Mr. Protzman, where is your statement on failing public schools. I think we need to put a cap on public schools until they are all awesome. I mean come on how ridiculous is both your statement and that one? I do not hear from you about closing failing public schools or limiting the number of public schools.

Overall Charter Schools outperfom public schools with less. Per student public schools get much more than Charter Schools per student. And the Charter Schools do much better.

Measured Investment? Oh come on Mr. Protzman, come clean and say how you really feel about Charter Schools. The statistics prove Charter Schools are overall superior to public schools. What are you afraid of, some real competition?

Because the current system of accountability in place for public schools is resulting in such great results...

Do Charter Schools Perform Better Than Traditional Public Schools?
EdSource Study Says…It Depends

This study shows that Charter schools DO perform better on the middle and high school level...

NC's Charter School Report Card

This shows that our charter schools face strong accountability standards and over 30 schools have closed because of poor performance!

Tom Menino, the longtime Democratic mayor of this city, is not known for rocking the boat or for eloquence. But earlier this month he stunned many in the city when he gave a powerful speech about school reform.

Charter Schools Win a High-Profile Convert

NCAE, whose parents organization is NAE, is a union - plain and simple - semantics semantics!

Union representing teachers in the state. Affiliated with the NEA.

This is what it says when you do a Google search and the results pop up!

NCAE's position paper on Charter Schools:
http://www.ncae.org/Images/Users/7/Charter%20School%20Position%20Paper.pdf
BTW, "A" stands for Association not "UNION"

I forgot to mention, I am a supporter of measured investment in charter schools, though I oppose increasing the cap. We already have plenty of under-performing charter schools in North Carolina. Until we have a system to make sure there's accountability, we shouldn't raise the cap. Legislation that would increase the cap by 6 schools is silly.

According to a recent report by the leading advocacy group for charter schools, they performed no better than public schools.

Considering our teachers are being fired and we are facing tax increases to "save the teachers," then this should be an easy sell to allow more charter schools...

Does anyone know if kids perform better in public schools or charter schools?

I wonder if the teachers union will support this idea to expand the number...I think I know the answer...