Right up there with "health insurance"being a business. They genuflect to the almighty dollar.They really have no understanding of people outside their bubble.Please put them in the corner where they belong.

Plenty of Democrats backed (and still back) the idea of charter schools. Plenty of our guys and gals embraced Democrats for Education Reform, but most of the are keeping quiet about it now that the worm has turned.

but this idea must have come out of the Heritage group. It is right up their alley of stupid ideas. America gained its greatness when we introduced public schools.

schools...now I don't like Charter schools but the ones around here are the only option for poor kids who's parents cant afford private school. So the issue is more complicated. You will not improve public schools sufficiently for today's students in these areas...what are they collateral damage?

And I promise you, if we run on ending Charter Schools, we will lose votes in the mid west. In Detroit, classes can be as many as 60 kids...60! If we could revamp schools quickly, it would be one thing but we can't...many building are substandard with few books and teachers who have given up...also Ohio has starved public schools. We need to regulate charter schools and make them non-profit...but we can't simply shut them down when for many kids, there is no alternative. Education is a mess especially in those states with GOP governors.

They don't increase student chances of college acceptance or college graduation. They don't improve test scores. They don't perform better than comparable nearby public schools. They just DON'T WORK, and there's been enough time and research to show that.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2019/04/02/federal-department-of-education-study-research-charter-middle-schools-college/

it works to make some people rich which is all republicans ever care about.

we do charters mostly right in illinois, and in chicago.
no big chains allowed, no for profits. increasingly union.
many of the charters are held by universities, including u of c, the home of education theory and practice. the teacher's union holds a charter, there is an arts high, there is namaste elementary school. one of gullen's schools is around the corner from me. it is a true shining gem, recently on the u.s. news list.

the school system in chi is a slow moving rube goldberg that has seriously not only failed but damaged children for generations.
i completely support the public schools. they should be first in line for tax dollars, and never need a bake sale.

it is slowly becoming less of a one-size-fits-all system, but it is still short on both money and staff to properly serve kids as individuals.
there are about 5 times as many gifted kids as there are seats for them even after decades of expanding selective enrollment.
creative kids are neglected even more.

charters fill a lot of these niches well.

the system hasnt kept up w population shifts, and when they did the first big alignment in a century, the mayor lost his job.
charters are sort of the difference between buying and renting. they just got burned for sinking assets for too long. charters are more nimble.

it isnt the public schools that have been emptied out by the charters.
it's the catholic schools. for decades the ONLY choice for a kid who doesnt fit into the monopoly schools. for those who could afford it, of course.
and because of that, i am happy for the alternatives.
charters here, for the most part, are either first come/first served or lottery, and some are even neighborhood schools that take all comers. there is little to no cherry picking.
if you want to get into special needs kids, i can go there, too. i raised 5 crazy kids in this town, and i have been in every part of the system.

you can support public schools, and also understand their failings.
i would really like to take a deep dive into the numbers, if i had the knowledge to do so. i suspect that the test score comparisons are missing a lot of things. and aint it funny that teachers who dont want to be judged by their kid's test score want to judge charter performance that way.
testing that is not correlated to curriculum is worthless.

maybe i should toss her a few bucks so she can call me and get some nuance.

they can never be compared to public schools. What Charter schools do is take kids that have motivated parents. They do not take the kids whose parent or parents don't properly launder his or her cloths or insure that the kid is groomed each day. They do not take the kid that has behavior problems and struggle to figure those out while trying to teach the kid. They don't take kids that are slow learners for whatever reason the kid is slow and try to catch him or her up to his or her peers.

If you give any competent person select components to work with and adequate funding, I promise you that person will be successful. It is an absolute travesty that you say that some Chicago schools have to hold bake sales to support basic educational functions, people should be rioting in the streets about such a situation and politicians most certainly should be held accountable.

perhaps re-read my post.

demanding a total end to all deportation. Quite the coincidence that both perceived front runners get rowdy protest starting at the same point in time and in each case on strong points....If I were into conspiracy theories...

FWIW, not surprising if in fact. Note, trigger warning, written by R. Grim, R. Cohen..

Billionaire Walton Family Behind Pro-Charter School Protest at Warren Rally. The senator spoke with the parents who protested her education plan after the event.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/22/billionaire-walton-family-behind-pro-charter-school-protest-warren-rally