Reply #65: That's a community call -

[mzteris]

no one wants to "FIRE ALL THE TEACHERS". It's ONE option out of four for schools/teachers - that have five years to turn it around.

Diane Ravitch still calls for accountability and what some call "merit pay". She thinks Charters are a viable option if done properly. I take exception to a lot of her "claims" about Charters, though. It seems she repeats talkingpoints that may have once been true about a handful of schools before changes were made. The other thing about Charters, they're only as good as the states allow them to be.