The headline is correct. Last month, the Santa Cruz City Schools District decided to not approve a controversial and divisive petition to create a Montessori charter school. They had many of the same problems with the charter petition: drained resources, wasteful administrative duplications, eliminate unionized teachers, etc. Instead, it offered to make Montessori an elementary school option within the existing District. Sound familiar? It should. We already do that. And we have three options.
Whether Santa Cruz intended to or not, they are emulating what we already do. We shouldn't be dismantling what we do. We should be spreading it across the country. The small school model works. It might be messy, it might be unfair sometimes. But this small school choice model is an innovative approach to revamping our public education system. It keeps it under public control and open to extensive community input, direction, and innovation. This keeps our school out of the hands of multinational corporations and their legal minions that seek to profit at the public trough.
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