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Article: Letters to the Editor ; ON GLOBE'S ANALYSIS OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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Cherry-picking
the measures
IF THE Globe were serious about doing a fair analysis of charter
public school demographics, it would not "cherry-pick" only those
measures in which district schools exercise discretion: special
education and English language learners ("Charter schools lag in
serving the neediest," Page A1, Aug. 12).
If the reporter includes the two demographic categories in which
district schools have little or no control over - race and income -
he would find that charters enroll a far higher percentage of
African-American students than urban district schools and an
equivalent percentage of low-income students. These are the students
that charters are serving with ...