When center - left officials and institutions (such as the NAACP)
support arbitrary caps, they are dismissing the voices of three million current charter school students and their parents, and the one million more who want to enroll their child in a charter school, but due to high demand, were only able to get on a waiting list (this includes: 8,640 parents in Washington, D.C., 44,000 in New York, 34,000 in Massachusetts, and a whopping 158,000 in California).
The article is centered around secretary of education John King who speaks against «
arbitrary»
caps on charter schools and in
support of greater state accountability.