Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Charter Schools' "Make or Break Moment"
Those are the words of Meryl Tisch, a Regent from New York City, as quoted by NYT's Elissa Gootman in this morning's curtain-raiser for this week's charter authorizing action. Gootman describes not only the drama surrounding the possible granting of the four remaining charter school slots under the outdated 1998 charter school law, but the fight that is heating up on both sides of the issue.
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