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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: School Choice Week in Chicago: Pay Fines or Be Scruntinized by Police Surveillance Cameras.

Missouri Education Watchdog: School Choice Week in Chicago: Pay Fines or Be Scruntinized by Police Surveillance Cameras.:

School Choice Week in Chicago: Pay Fines or Be Scruntinized by Police Surveillance Cameras.

Charters are privately run government schools. In Missouri, they are under the same mandates and common core standards as traditional public schools. They are taxpayer funded which means the taxpayer is paying private companies to deliver education.

Do they do a better job than traditional schools? Some do, some don't. But what one charter school in Chicago does do better than a traditional public school is levy fines for bad behavior and minor