The Washington Post Gets it Right
“Blanket calls to curtail charter schools completely miss the mark”
The Washington Post’s editorial team gets it right when it comes to Senator Sanders’ education plan. We need more high-quality schools across the country that continue to equalize educational opportunities–especially for communities of color–not fewer.
There’s Nothing Progressive About Strangling Charter Schools
THE MOST enduring — and unforgivable — civil rights offense in our country today is the consigning of so many poor, often minority children to failing schools. Among the more promising efforts to deal with this urgent issue have been public charter schools, which give poor families the choice in their children’s education that more prosperous parents take for granted. That makes all the more distressing the bid by some Democrats to blame charter schools for all the ills of public education.
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