Good morning, CharterFolk.
A classic one out of Indianapolis this morning.
The article surfaces encouraging study after encouraging study but then sags back to a posture of “evidence being inconclusive” and questioning whether it’s even helpful to compare charter school performance to district performance.
Policy makers are convinced and are finally providing charter schools funding equity while giving district schools a long phase-in period to get ready.
Advocates across the country, including Tyler Barrett in Alabama, are pursuing a similar push for funding equity.
In Tennessee, I’ve known that charter schools are seeing major policy breakthroughs this year, but until now, there haven’t been any articles to link to. Marc Porter-Magee at 50Can led with it in his weekly roundup today.
It’s just more evidence that charter schools maintain a strong sense of momentum amid a period of unprecedented change and turbulence.
Speaking of Porter-Magee’s …
… Kathleen and her debate partner Derek W. Black won decisively in their AEI-hosted debate on whether the Supreme Court should rule in favor of religious charter schools.
Meanwhile, a technological transformation unlike anything we’ve seen is now approaching public education. This brilliant Substack piece puts the moment in repose.
Yes, Harvard will survive, the piece posits. But will California’s public universities – when AI will soon be providing higher quality, essentially costless instruction to students seeking college degrees?
Meanwhile, teachers seem to be warming up to the use of AI, at least as it relates to making their own lives more manageable.
And yet, survey data suggests that students’ use of AI …
… is very different from what many teachers assume.