I had a six-minute debate last night with James Merriman of the New York City Charter School Center on the show, “All In With Chris Hayes”.
You can watch the whole thing online here:
Of course there are a bazillion things I wish I had said (or said differently). In New York City, charter schools only enroll about 6% of the student population. Still, they have become a major source of controversy because (as Hayes suggests) the largest charter school leaders are part of a general movement for