Charter schools aim to enroll 1 million students

Intended to advance innovation and reforms in public education, charter schools have become a symbol of the fight for parental choice in public education, where default assignment to a "neighborhood" school simply by ZIP code is no longer automatic. The March to a Million is being challenged by old-guard special interests now organizing to file a state initiative suppressing charter schools. Staff opinion columnist Gloria Romero is an education reformer and former Democratic state senator from L