Given all the support for charter schools in legislation such as this currently being pushed by the Patrick adminisration as Massachussetts chases the federal Race to the Top dollars, we should be asking who helped Secretary Reville do the political calculations by which he determined one new charter (not some other number) had to be granted this year regardless of the quality of the applications.
In past years, applications have been rejected on their first try, and then approved when resubmitted after responding to the concerns of the Department’s evaluators. So, as the Patrick administration continues to push its education agenda, does it endorse a new standard for evaluating charter applications, which appears to include a guaranteed minimum number of new charters in any given year?
