Every Charter School Must Be Closed Down – Every. Single. One.
The problem with charter schools isn’t that they have been implemented badly.
Nor is it that some are for-profit and others are not.
Put simply: charter schools are a bad idea. They always were a bad idea. And it is high time we put an end to them.
I am overjoyed that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are starting to hear the criticisms leveled against the charter school industry in the face of the naked greed and bias of the Trump administration and its high priestess of privatization, Betsy DeVos. However, I am also disappointed in the lack of courage displayed by many of these same lawmakers when proposing solutions.
Charter schools enroll only 6 percent of students nationwide yet they gobble up billions of dollars in funding. In my home state of Pennsylvania, they cost Commonwealth taxpayers more than $1.8 billion a year and take more than 25 percent of the state’s basic education funding. That’s for merely 180 schools with CONTINUE READING: Every Charter School Must Be Closed Down – Every. Single. One. | gadflyonthewallblog
