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Mr. President: Be the bad guy, start closing schools.
12/01/09 | Class Struggle

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Charters as Role Models
Summer 2005 | Education Next

In his column, Jay Mathews urges the Obama administration to pressure authorizers to close charter schools that aren’t succeeding. In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2005, Michael Petrilli urged the charter movement to embrace accountability and accept its ultimate consequence: the closure of failing charter schools.