Charter schools are about money, not choice
Posted: March 18, 2012 - 12:00am | Updated: March 18, 2012 - 10:51am
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A survey last week of Georgians’ opinions regarding several issues before the state Legislature determined that just 16 percent strongly favor the attempt to amend the state constitution to allow charter schools without local oversight.
That tiny minority who still harbor a tingly fondness for charter schools, then, really should read the recent commentary by Dick Yarbrough in The Athens Daily News (you can find it atwww.onlineathens.com).
Yarbrough follows the money trail and nails it:
“It’s not about the kids,” he writes. “It’s about money and politics and influence-peddling.”
Yarbrough examined the charter schools system in Florida, which has been at the game much