It’s a conversation as hot and fiery as any other political touchstone out there: should there be a cap on charter schools, and are charter schools—overall—better for children, democracy, and society than traditional publicly-funded schools?
What’s your experience as a teacher, student, citizen, researcher, and parent?
Are charter schools just private schools taking public funds and claiming to work miracles?
Are public schools outdated and in need of some “private sector” rethinking?
And what’s at stake—for you—in your neighborhood, city, and state?
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Oliver wasn’t claiming to be telling the whole story. In fact, he specifically said right at the beginning that he wouldn’t be. Instead he was making the point that while not all of them are bad, and that even the concept itself might be good, the lack of regulation means that many *extremely* bad ones are stealing huge amounts of public education funds fro the taxpayers, and in the process harming young children. And that, sadly, is the truth. Charter schools can be, and in some instances are, fantastic (and he showed a couple of examples), but until states are… Read more »