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Charter schools, as described by the radical FORBES:
Charter School Gravy Train Runs Express To Fat City
Charter schools are frequently a way for politicians to reward their cronies…. Too bad the kids in charter schools don’t learn any better than those in plain-vanilla public schools…
Unimpressive, especially when you consider charter schools can pick and choose their students….Nor does the evidence show that charters spend taxpayers’ money more efficiently….
About the only thing charters do well is limit the influence of teachers’ unions. And fatten their investors’ portfolios
http://onforb.es/19FeQ2q
Ah, Kansas City, my hometown. “Best schools” still in Johnson County. In Kansas. Where the privileged live. Still one of the most segregated metropolitan areas in the nation.
Thanks Phillip–nice to see Forbes acknowledge reality and hey, give ’em credit for their ability to still find a way to blame the federal government in the last line.
PS, I grew up in Johnson County. White. Upper middle-class. My high school had 20 acres of undisturbed land for biology, a football stadium, really we had it all. Wealth and culture matter.