This is good news for the kids.

 NOW with school choice and charter underway perhaps we can close all the public schools in Chicago and start actually teaching our kids. A voucher for every kid gets him into any school in the state... if he can stay there is up to him. There will be schools for those who can't make it..

In New Orleans, traditional public schools close for good

www.washingtonpost.com

Major school district, devastated by 2005 hurricane, shifts entirely to charter schools, the first to...