Just as Republicans are expanding charter schools nationwide, charters are cutting costs just to survive.
Cuts to education not only affect public schools, but charterand voucher schools. With tighter state budgets, and continued ideologicalslashing of education budgets, schools will have no choice but seek out thecheapest route to survive as a business, no matter how it fails our children.
If this sounds absolutely outrageous, and not what youthought would happen to your kid’s education, then you haven’t been paying attentionto all the “naysayers,” who have been vilified by the far right.
Liberty and choice sound wonderful, until you figure out ithas nothing to do with reality. Check out the cutting and slashing taking placein charter schools now. Oh, remember when we had public schools…?
Hybrid charter schools—those that blend online andface-to-face instruction—has been growing