MA: Charter School Act (Statute)

[Junkie]

I must say I find this vote very hard.  From my personal experience, the public school system is clearly broken.  There are some charter schools that are excellent and are providing opportunities that children would not have.  On the other hand, I have seen many charter schools that are horrible, and a few that are fronts for drug dealers.  But on the whole, if done right, these schools could provide an answer that is sorely needed.

What sells me on this statute is the monitoring of the charter schools through government regulation and audits.  Quite frankly, I should have spoken up earlier, but I somehow missed this thread.  After giving it some thought, I support this statute and will consider a later statute formalizing and strengthing regulation of these schools.

Thus I vote:

Aye