Moratorium also would halt promising schools
The Columbus Dispatch
4/9/2007
By Jennifer Smith Richards
Surely we’re allowed to start new charter schools, the school districts say.
And surely, some charter leaders say, Gov. Ted Strickland doesn’t mean to squelch the expansion of successful programs.
But they are wrong.
To current and would-be charter schools, Strickland’s proposed moratorium is a terrible response […]

This report includes the nationwide Teacher Shortage Area (TSA) lists for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 school years.

The Center for American Progress “found several common trends in charter and private schools that differ significantly from pay experiments in traditional public schools: (1)Strict salary schedules play a much smaller role in charter and private schools in determin­ing teachers’ base pay. Many charter and private schools do not use a schedule at all, and…

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