Reply #24: "Charter schools can cherry pick their students while public schools must take all comers."

[NYC_SKP]

I'm sorry, this oft-repeated meme is just not true.

Public schools can and do eliminate students, and many charter schools accept more than their proportionate share of LD and ELL students.

It does the discussion no benefit to stereotype all charter schools or all public schools in one way or another.

Most of the charter schools in my county, for example, are run by our own office of education and are 100% staffed by union teachers.

One has a 50% at risk requirement, all of them have ELL students.

Of course, we have to keep a close eye on ALL schools, and especially Private Charter schools, but not all schools are the same.

Thanks in advance.

NYC_SKP

PS: FWIW, I sit on several school boards, district meetings, and attend California Department of Education meetings.