Every Great School Deserves to Stay Open

Rose Fernandez is President of the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families - the group trying to protect their charter school, WIVA, from a WEAC lawsuit. I wrote about it a couple of times before, as did Owen.

She's got a column on WisOpinion today. An excerpt:

I am confused. Superintendent Burmaster is supposed to be the advocate for public education in this state. WIVA is a successful, cost-effective, public school. She should be defending the school, its students, its teachers and its families. Instead she is sitting idly by while the state teachers union threatens the rights of every parent in Wisconsin. She should be advocating for educational excellence, not the teachers union.

No offense to Ms. Fernandez, but if that's what she thinks, she is confused.

Now that the DPI Superintendent race is over, this issue isn't getting the same publicity it was, but these parents are keeping up the fight. I'll be pulling (and blogging) for them.