By DONN ESMONDE
1/27/2006
The likely demise of Stepping Stone Academy, a long-struggling Buffalo charter school, is further proof that the charter school experiment works. It is all about accountability - the lack of which in traditional public schools fueled the charter school movement.

When a charter school doesn't perform, as Stepping Stone hasn't, it loses its license to teach. If Buffalo's traditional public schools were held to the same perform-or-close standard, a mass of them would have shut over the past decade. In another case, a looming ax led to a turnaround at the once-shaky King Charter School. Accountability works.


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