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What to Know: Charter schools are pushing the Dallas Independent School District toward greater success, says Todd Williams, who leads a Dallas educational nonprofit.
“I think one of the great things that we’ve seen in Dallas in response to charter schools is it’s caused the Dallas Independent School District to do a lot of different things — for academic reasons and enrollment reasons,” he said during TribFest. “They know if they grab a kid in pre-K, they’re less likely to go to a charter school. They know if they offer early college in a high school that a charter school can’t economically offer, they’re probably going to get that kid back in the traditional system. Those are great things for kids.”
The TPPF Take: The competition that charters offer are good for traditional public schools.
“Charter schools are doing what they are intended to do – offering families desperately needed alternatives to their government assigned failing schools, and creating competition for students so that all school districts have to improve student performance,” says TPPF’s Kara Belew.
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