Obama's Charter Policy Built on "Sketchy Evidence"
Could it be more than coincidence that while Bill the Oligarch huddled with corporate charterites that a national study would be released showing the bankruptcy of the charter solution? The Christian Science Monitor's caption for the AP photo: "Bill Gates shakes hands with Nelson Smith, President and CEO of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, at National Charter Schools Conference in Chicago Tuesday, the same day that a government study found that charter schools do no better than public schools in student outcomes."
Photo Kiichiro Sato/AP.
A clip from the Monitor article, which is the only newspaper so far to report the new study:
A clip from the Monitor article, which is the only newspaper so far to report the new study: