Tulsa School Board Seeks to Strangle Charter Schools

By okpns

From Batesline:

The Tulsa public school district is fond of calling itself the “District of Choice,” but the board and school administration has always been hostile to giving parents in the district the choice of charter schools — schools that are publicly-funded and tuition-free, but are independently governed. Other than home schooling or private schooling, it’s the only opportunity to choose for your child a different educational philosophy than the one-size-fits-all plan crafted by the educrats at 31st and New Haven.

Tomorrow (Monday) night, the Tulsa School Board will consider a resolution protesting the fact that Tulsa is one of only 20 districts in the state allowed by law to have charter schools. More than protesting, the resolution sets out policy for dealing with the existing three charter schools in the district (Deborah Brown Elementary, Dove Science Middle School, and Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences), policy that would stop any further growth and endanger their ongoing viability.

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