West Palm Beach Charter School: an idea going nowhere

From Eliot Kleinberg at the Palm Beach Post we have this story about the charter school idea in West Palm Beach:

     West Palm Beach will work with struggling schools in the city, starting with the worst, Northmore Elementary, the city said Wednesday.
     The effort is the fallback after the city last year abandoned, at least for now, its attempts to create a city-run charter school.
     The city said it will work with the Palm Beach County School Board and the private sector in a phased program to improve reading levels of students at Northmore, at 4111 North Terrace Dr., in the city’s north end.
     That’s not far from the city-owned lot near 28th Street and Broadway where the city had planned Palm Beach County’s first municipally run charter school.
     West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio repeated Wednesday of the charter school, “right now, it’s a dead issue.”

On the subject of charter schools, probably the silliest idea for a charter school was here in the City of Lake Worth. A charter school was proposed to teach ancient Greek and Latin to young children—fortunately, reason prevailed in that instance.