New Urban Playbook: Hand Over Schools to Charter Operators
The financially embattled Detroit school system has announced a controversial plan to turn nearly a third of the district’s 141 schools over to charter operators or education-management organizations by next school year. Officials say their only other option is to close dozens of low-performing schools.
With its plan to hand 41 schools over to outside managers, the 73,000-student Detroit district is borrowing a page from the same playbook that a growing number of large urban districts seem to be using.
“You’re seeing more of this activity by school district leaders, but it’s not their only strategy. It’s the right strategy for some schools in some circumstances,” said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, in Chicago. “We saw none of...
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