Charters to Watch

Check out thisarticle in today's LA Times about Birmingham High School's conversion to a Charter. This great story highlights the challenges of switching to charter status, and all the forces at work. This is a school to watch, a pioneer and a microcosm for the kind of experiments we will see in upcoming years.

Our school (Larchmont Charter West Hollywood) will share a campus with Rosewood Elementary (LAUSD) this year. But I wonder, in the future, will more charter schools merge with existing LAUSD schools in an effort to regain more control, escape the endless red tape of LAUSD, and retain control over their own funds in a school district where funding increasingly falls short of what parents even need to operate the school? Is it fair that parents raise more and more money at public schools, and yet their campus does not have complete decision making power about how that money is used?

I will be watching...

Do you think there will be a revolution?