Nevada State Board of Education Blocking Charter School Expansion

If you’re interested in public education issues, make sure you read Chuck Muth’s blog post on the Nevada DOE's hostility toward charter schools and the desperate parents who wish to home school and/or who have their children on charter school wait lists due to the failing public schools here in Nevada. Among other incomprehensible decisions, the Board of Education has put a moratorium on all new charter school applications and is also denying existing charter schools permission to expand. The bottom line (for me) is simple: If parents wish to home school and their kids can pass the DOE’s mandated profiency exams, that ought to be sufficient. And if there’s a waiting list for charter schools, then we should allow those schools to do what ought to be common sense in a free market: meet consumer demand through addition to or expansion of such schools.