Seattle Schools Community Forum

The news is not good.  In fact, there's quite a lot of rumbling across charterland.   Get a cup of coffee because there are many stories to read.  These stories create quite the crazy quilt of the landscape of charter schools. Let's start with the NAACP and the resolution brought forth at their national convention recently.  When you see the NAACP saying things like:

 Update:   in a HUGE win, voters in Chicago voted to have an elected Chicago Board of Education (after 20 years of mayoral appointments.)   From the Chicago Tribune: Voters in 37 wards overwhelmingly endorsed an elected Chicago Board of Education, according to preliminary tallies Tuesday, a non-binding outcome that nonetheless promises to stoke a long-running debate over the mayor's power to appoint board members. In the 2012 general election, 89 percent of voters in five Chicago wards approved a similar advisory referendum for an elected board. Earlier this month, a Tribune poll also reflected broad support for the idea. Seventy-six percent of voters said they favor an elected school board while 14 percent backed an appointed board. Gee, sounds like voters in Chicago want to democratically elect who represents them in school governance. I tweeted this story to Mayor Murray and Rep. Eric Pettigrew (who is sponsoring a bill to allow the mayoral to ap...