Timely article in the Boston Globe

Yesterday's Boston Globe featured a front page article on the likely growth of charter schools within Massachusetts: http://bit.ly/hUPhWg

Definitely worth a look -- and timely with respect to the BSC education panel for a few reasons:

• Interaction between government policy (here, the recently enacted MA law that increased the number of charter "seats" allowed in low-performing school districts) and private initiatives (charter schools are privately operated but still public schools)
• Emphasis on performance / on proof that the innovation works: how do charters measure and sustain good results?
• Challenges of growing to scale: many of the schools discussed in the article are making the transition from single standalone schools to charter management organizations (CMOs) / charter networks
• Tension between solutions within and outside of the public education system

P.S. Fun fact unrelated to the BSC: Excel Academy, one of the schools featured in the article, will be the "client" for a Tuck First-Year Project team this spring.