To Upend the Status Quo
Over the past year, I co-chaired a teacher and parent effort to open the first public charter school in Montgomery County, Md. The plan is quite simple: Open a small secondary school focused just on the academics, and market this challenge to mostly black and Latino youngsters.
It is my belief, and that of the other founders, that the only real solution available for closing the achievement gap between these kids and their white counterparts is academic rigor. There is no other answer, or shortcut.
Our charter school effort still has a long way to go, but positive signals from the county board of education make us believe that a fall 2001 opening...
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