At the same time, the LAUSD teacher in me realizes that charter schools portray LAUSD with that exact monolithic tone — the large, uniformly bad district of consistent failure. (schooldatanerd.com)
But charter leaders want to hammer home their point that the answer to bad district schools illustrate the need for good charters. (politico.com)
In other words, it explains why there are extremely bad districts; but not why there are «good» districts; (2) Stating that funding is needed to address poverty - even when true - is misleading in context of education funding; most of the cost of which has nothing to do with feeding poor kids; (3) Experiments shown that throwing money at that problem don't help nearly as much as projected (e.g. Camden, NJ). (politics.stackexchange.com)