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Using the Tennessee Charter Schools Association website to answer concerns and criticisms about charter schools is akin to asking the Politburo to address concerns and criticisms about Communism. How about we try unbaised organizations, such as Stanford University, which have conducted multiple studies, both positive and negative, concerning charter schools. Or for that, any of the other thousands of studies, both positive and negative, that have been conducted. If you look at the whole picture, not just a selection, then you would realize that charter schools have been around for more than 20 years without any conclusive evidence of being effective.

I am all for trying new things, but at least make sure it is going to work. We are asking our teachers to use PROVEN research based methods (which is stated verbatium in the new evaluation models). Why not have all education decisions based upon the same standard?