Call Your House Member and Urge a "No" Vote on H.R. 10
Update: It passed overwhelmingly but we'll have to see what the Senate says. Here's a good accounting from the Huffington Post on this bill. To note: Mary Kusler, the NEA's government relations director, also raised concerns about accountability. "Some provisions of the underlying bill represent improvements, such as requiring greater charter authorizer accountability, and including weighted lotteries to address under-enrollment of disadvantaged students," she wrote. "However, the underlying bill falls short in key areas: including no mandatory disclosure and reporting on key data including funding from private sources, no independent audit requirements, no open meetings requirements and no conflict of interest guidelines." Funny because DFER and others in Washington State continue to go on and on about charters being "public schools." If they don't have to report their data and don't have to have open meetings, it do...