Choice Is Key to Charters’ Success

This op-ed by Education Alliance of Colorado Founder and Executive Director Rob Moulton was originally published in Colorado Politics. In it, he discusses how educational choice drives innovation, accountability, and better outcomes for students across Colorado.

Paula Noonan, a consistent anti-school choice/anti-charter voice in Colorado, weighed in with several interesting statements in a recent column (“NOONAN | Charter schools, ed reform overrated,” Dec. 10). First, she said that charter school advocates have created a “versus” mentality when it comes to educational choices – lecturing that “as long as charter supporters see their schools as ‘competitors’ and generally superior to traditional public schools, a ‘versus’ seems inevitable.” Secondly, she claims that a root cause is a “paucity of resources”, supported by a false assertion that charters receive more funding per student than traditional public schools. Both arguments are not only tired and predictable, repeated and believed by anti-choice groups for years, but are a distraction from the real causes for our challenges in education. Let’s not let them play their game so easily this time.

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