This morning hell froze over and pigs were flying.
The NY Post owned by charter school proponent Rupert Murdoch, wrote its first negative artilce about charter schools.
The focus was on the DOE progress reports which is an attempt by the New York City Department of education to assign each school a letter grade based on student performance. According to the article in the Post, public schools scored 10 percent higher on average than charter schools.
This puts Joel Klien, New York City public school chancellor and charter school proponent in a difficult situation. Either admit that your scoring system doesn't work and you have wasted millions of dollars, or admit that chater schools are not the answer to education reform.
Joel did what anybody in that position would do - he left town.
Technically, that was in the news. Hell will certainly freeze over before you see anything of that sort on the editorial page, and that goes for pretty much the News and the Times as well.
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