School board tightens leash on charter schools

04-07-2011

By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego

Three years ago, mothers and fathers pleaded for the school board to fix Memorial Academy, a Logan Heights charter school. Its scores were sagging. Principals came and went. But San Diego Unified said that short of shutting down the school, it couldn't step in. Memorial closed on its own. And that was typical. When aggravated parents or teachers have piped up with complaints about charter schools in the past, former school board member John de Beck said their worries were often outside the district's control. Charters are independent, he explained, free to run themselves as they wish. Now a new school board is seeking to keep its more than 40 charter schools on a tighter leash before problems emerge, testing its powers with new rules. (more...)

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