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Jake Jacobs: Democratic Candidates Speak Double-talk about Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog

Jake Jacobs: Democratic Candidates Speak Double-talk about Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog

Jake Jacobs: Democratic Candidates Speak Double-talk about Charters

Jake Jacobs, a teacher in New York and BAT activist, writes in the Progressive about the pathetic evasions of Democratic Candidates when asked directly about their stance on charter schools.
Public school educators and advocates have been working for years for this to become a major campaign issue, but so far, most candidate statements have been conflicted, incomplete, clumsy, and/or vague, while media coverage has been equally as incomplete, inaccurate, and in many cases baldly biased in favor of charters. 
Read the article to see how they bob and weave to avoid taking issue with privatization of public schools.
Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat so far who has come out in support of the NAACP proposal for a CONTINUE READING: Jake Jacobs: Democratic Candidates Speak Double-talk about Charters | Diane Ravitch's blog