The war for education continues, and the side of literacy and opportunity suffered a defeat in Colorado earlier this month. Teachers unions’ and their allies dominating school boards flexed their bureaucratic muscle to stop school choice in its tracks.
Charter schools around the country, especially those structured to provide an education based on the classical model, have succeeded in improving the educational opportunities and achievements of those lucky enough to be enrolled in them. That fact that has remained as steady over the years as the low reading scores posted by the public-school system. What has evolved is the tenacity of the opposition from the local public school boards over which the teachers’ unions exert so much control, and from whom desperate parents must seek a blessing for a charter.
