Tag: Boston charter schools

Mr. Gibbons’ Report Card: What is a public school?

Wayne Au, University of Washington at Bothell Wayne Au, an education professor and plaintiff in League of Women Voters v. State (the case that found charter schools unconstitutional in Washington) claims charter schools aren’t public schools. Au’s actually conflating the word “public school” with the concept of the “common school,” a 19th-century... READ MORE