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The Facts DO Matter in Terms of Charter Schools | Seattle Education

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The Facts DO Matter in Terms of Charter Schools

Remember the post “The fact’s don’t matter”, with the League of Education Voters”?

As I wrote:

During Munn’s presentation this week praising the glories of charter schools, one of the images she showed during her rather weak Power Point presentation were the words The “fact’s” don’t matter. She said that approving or disapproving of charter schools was simply a matter of “values”,either you like them or you don’t.

How convenient to say that the facts don’t matter when there is a plethora of information regarding charter schools and most of it is not good.

I was pulling together some information that someone had requested on charter schools this morning and as the