«With primary day around the corner, People for Quality Education will endorse and promote candidates that can be counted on to be true public school education champions in the legislature, ready to fight for real investments for public school students,» Zakiyah Ansari, a board member of People for Quality Education — and a former member of Mayor Bill de Blasio's transition team, told the Observer. (observer.com)
The only thing really public about these schools are the public funds they siphon from true public schools. (nancyebailey.com)
Thomas Nechyba argues in one paper that in the United States there is no such thing as a true public school, since access to public schools is rationed through private housing markets, and it is unlikely that there will ever by a fully private school, since private schools are subject to government oversight, and support for private schools is conditional on certain public aims being met. (educationnext.org)