NYC Traditional Public Schools Outperform Bloomberg's Corporate Charters

How much reality does it take to slow the corporate juggernaut?  From the NYTimes:

. . . .Charter schools over all received lower grades than traditional schools, a result the teachers’ union president seized on.

Sixty-one percent of traditional public schools, which are unionized, got A’s and B’s, compared with 48 percent of charter schools, where union representation is rare.

“This means that either the strategy Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have touted so often for school reform — the creation of more charter schools — isn’t working,” said Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, “or that the entire progress-report methodology, which relies almost completely on standardized test scores, is flawed.”. . . .