Charter Schools and their Enemies
Why can't kids in the inner cities get a decent education? Charter Schools used to be a medium cost choice for parents who couldn't afford private schools, but did not want to have to send their kids to public schools with horrible records, tenured teachers who couldn't be fired, and extremely low records of kids going on to college.
Dr. Thomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institute shocked me when I heard him say that powerful public school teachers unions in California are deliberately trying to destroy Charter Schools, because they are the competition!
50,000 inner city kids are on waiting lists to get in to Charter Schools, and some genius in government put the head of the teachers union in CHARGE of the rules for Charter Schools, which resulted in quality and standards plummeting, so that now, some Charter schools with previously stellar records are WORSE than the public schools, if that is even possible.
In some states, empty school buildings that could be used by Charter schools are being razed to the ground so that Charter schools can't take money away from Unions .
https://www.hoover.org/research/charter-schools-and-their-enemies
Dr. Thomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institute shocked me when I heard him say that powerful public school teachers unions in California are deliberately trying to destroy Charter Schools, because they are the competition!
50,000 inner city kids are on waiting lists to get in to Charter Schools, and some genius in government put the head of the teachers union in CHARGE of the rules for Charter Schools, which resulted in quality and standards plummeting, so that now, some Charter schools with previously stellar records are WORSE than the public schools, if that is even possible.
In some states, empty school buildings that could be used by Charter schools are being razed to the ground so that Charter schools can't take money away from Unions .
https://www.hoover.org/research/charter-schools-and-their-enemies
