Originally Posted by uppervalley
But NCLB, for all its flaws, is making a difference in inner cities.

It's a pity centrists gave up on vouchers. They would speed up reform dramatically. So would eliminating lotteries at charter schools. If markets were allowed to work, they could get us a lot closer to a solution.

I doubt this. Here, most of our inner-city charter schools are doing even less than babysitting-- some were just shut down because they weren't even providing lunch regularly. Far less can they actually educate anyone. It looks remarkably like a wild-west scenario, with poorly regulated schools siphoning off money and then leaving the students poorly served.