There are two cities in N.J. where charter school growth is
indeed challenging district budgets: Newark and Camden, where the demand by parents for alternative public schools is extremely high and as many as a third of students attend charters.
Not exact matches
But if you disagree — if you believe that the right leader can
indeed transform a school
district despite all of the
challenges — I'd love to know why.
And partly it's because of the fragmentation of America's primary - secondary education system itself — 14,000 school
districts, fifty different sets of state standards and tests — that makes disrupting this industry,
indeed even entering this market, such a
challenge for small publishing upstarts.
Indeed, in order to truly modernize and elevate the teaching profession, states,
districts, and their partners must acknowledge that the
challenges facing the profession are multifaceted and work toward a comprehensive solution.49