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Well said. Untold charter story The Eagle featured a rather disturbing commentary touting charter schools (“State’s educational system lacks choice,” Feb. 19 Opinion) by Robert Litan, a former Brookings Institution economist who recently resigned his affiliation with the think tank after a violation of a policy rule. Litan mentioned paying more to highly effective teachers, the need for school choice and catering to low-income students with low-attainment records. He also stated that there are “award-winning nonprofit charter groups – such as KIPP, Success Academy and Uncommon Schools, to name a few – that give largely minority students from...

This New Jersey editorial is very well done. Just substitute Kansas for New Jersey, Kansas Policy Institute for Pacific Research Institute, and Koch brothers for Walton Family Foundation, and it is applicable here. “The school-choice debate is delicate and complex. The core idea of providing students with options to escape an urban jungle is laudable. Charter schools have their place in settings where the need is greatest. But many school-choice advocates have other goals — public funding for religious schools, for example, or a broad privatization of our education system that would, among other things, break teacher unions…...