Uncapping and de-regulating charter schools
Spurred on by Race To The Top
While public education budgets are being slashed, federal support for privately-managed charter schools has increased to new heights including a $52 million increase in charter school funding last year. Since 2009, with $100 billion in stimulus funding for education, including $4.35 billion in the competitive Race to the Top fund behind him, Arne Duncan has offered a stern warning to states: "Embrace charters or risk losing stimulus dollars."
But while Duncan claims it's all about "quality, not quantity" when it comes to charter school expansion and while he tells us that "charters are not
But while Duncan claims it's all about "quality, not quantity" when it comes to charter school expansion and while he tells us that "charters are not
