(Virtual schools coming to Greenfield Massachusetts)

You gotta love the marketplace and love American innovation! If there’s a problem, someone will come along and fix it. If schools don’t or won’t or can’t or whatever.. meet the needs of students,then go out and create a system that might meet the needs of different students. Thus we try charters, ‘choice,’ vouchers, private, home, special ed, GED, early college, drop out prevention, gifted and talented, tutoring, and lots of other options. Many options. The schools, called ‘brick and mortar’ with all the issues they have….are no longer the only way to go. And here’s the latest. Attend school on line! Wow. Who would have thought that this is where the push to neighborhood and universal schools would take us…

Of course, we don’t know how far this innovation will or can go. But we do know that schools are not meeting the needs of all students and that something(s) have to change…. So, good luck!

About Miriam

Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, JD, MA—an expert in public education, focused on special education law— is a lawyer, author, speaker, consultant, and reformer. For more than 35 years, Miriam worked with educators, parents, policy makers, and citizens to translate complex legalese into plain English and focus on good practices for children. Now, she focuses her passion on reforming special education, with her new book, Special Education 2.0—Breaking Taboos to Build a NEW Education Law. Presentations include those at the AASA Conference, Orange County (CA), Boston College (MA), CADRE (OR), and the Fordham Institute (DC). Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Education Next, Hoover Digest, The University of Chicago Law Review on line, DianeRavitch.net, and The Atlantic Monthly on line.

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