I learned about this one from Whitney Tilson's email newsletter. School officials in Newark created a voluntary effort to offer universal enrollment for students citywide to all of Newark’s 71 public schools and 21 public charter schools. That's what I look for, a place where parents have choices and everybody wins as a result. In my opinion, wherever there are failing school districts, 20% of the schools within the district should automatically be converted to charters with a 5 year term. Set a rational academic bar, and when a district is below it, an RFP process begins. This would be a bit like California's parent trigger law, without the dependency on massive grass-roots organizing.
From the article: "charters were eight of the 10 choices most commonly named for seats in kindergarten through eighth grade."
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