Hillary Is Right about Charter Schools!
Charter school supporters can't deny that Hillary Clinton is factually correct in saying, "most charter schools ... don't take the hardest-to-teach kids. Or if they do, they don't keep them."
Even the most doctrinaire true-believer in school choice is not likely to claim the opposite, and say that "most charter schools ... take the hardest-to-teach kids ... [and] keep them."
In our toxic, competition-driven edu-politics, corporate reformers must strike back and protest Clinton's failure to prove her seemingly obvious statement. Education is divided by an intense and emotional civil war that mostly pits some liberals, neo-liberals, and civil rights advocates against other liberals, civil rights advocates and families who are sick and tired of the use of bubble-in testing as the ammunition in this conflict.
The immediate battleground is the fight for Clinton's support. And it sounds like theedu-battle for Hillary's heart and soul has been won!
It is appropriate that the education headlines focus on the big issue - the political question of whether Hillary Clinton would once again listen to her corporate funders like Eli Broad or to teachers, unions, and parents who are fed up with the test, sort, reward, and punish approach to school improvement, as well as the spin of reformers benefiting from the best public relations campaigns that money can buy.
So, before addressing a wonky issue about what do we mean when we refer to kids Hillary Is Right about Charter Schools! | John Thompson - Linkis.com:
