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To: epicure who wrote (116151)	7/22/2009 9:48:15 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542004

Many charter schools are "personality" dependent- in that that rely on very talented committed individuals who are often stakeholders of the institution- they have children there; The teacher driven ones I knew about in Manhattan were exactly this way. There were many attempts to scale them but it always came back to getting the right group of teachers. And even then, the problem of maintaining that level of commitment over long time periods, decades, became a problem. At their best, they are terrific but they are certainly, as institutions, no substitute for genuinely good public schools.