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Local Editorial: Failing schools should be converted to charters

By Examiner Editorial
Published June 4, 2013 4:00am ET
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Local Editorial: Failing schools should be converted to charters
D.C. Councilman David Catania wants to allow DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson to set up charterlike "innovation schools" not bound by central office dictates or teacher union contracts, and giving principals more control over finances and personnel. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Examiner file) | Graeme Jennings

David Catania, chairman of the D.C. Council’s Education Committee, wants to increase DC Public Schools’ accountability and academic results. Catania has the right idea but the wrong approach, one that is as doomed as other past attempts at school reform. But he’s not bold enough to propose the one thing that just might work.

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