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I completely agree with you there- I'm a huge fan of well run charters (like KIPP for example) but they don't seem like a scalable solution because they demand so much more of their teaching staff. My comment was more just a criticism of charter school enabling legislation - states that allow online charter schools or home school charters just don't pass the smell test (to me at least).

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Good teachers aren't scaleable thats a problem in its own, which is why the parent's involvement is so crucial IMO.

Success Accademy functions by lottery so it has kids from all over new york. Public schools are zoned which means that the best schools are those where the parents have the best incomes.

So even on a "fairness" scale I believe at least Success Academy pass the test.

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