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Charter Schools Fail & Segregate… Florida Says No to Vouchers « Continuing Change

Charter Schools Fail & Segregate… Florida Says No to Vouchers « Continuing Change

Charter Schools Fail & Segregate… Florida Says No to Vouchers

Why would we replace public schools with charter schools… have we not seen the research ?

Quote: “Duncan closed more than 60 schools, most of them all-black and all-poor, replacing them with charter schools and boutique schools that have since proved to be failures by the same measures Duncan used against the regular, unionized public schools.”

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=986&section=Article

http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/RUSSO/index.php/entry/1545/What_Happened_At_The_Protest

Post Update from January 26th Education Forward Summit – Lynn University, Boca Raton, FloridaDiscussion Highlights:

Peter Cunningham, Asst Secretary, Department of Education, admitted that charters would end