The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept
public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools
as well
as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern
of fraud
of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization
of education, opposed
diversion of funding from
public schools, called for full
funding for quality
public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.
I doesn't matter how much temporizers argue that this is the effect
of «noble cause» corruption, IT»S STILL CORRUPTION, undertaken deliberately and with malice aforethought, the effects including the
diversion of research
funds from legitimate purposes
as well
as support for
public policies and private sector malinvestment, which do great material damage to particular parties and to the common weal.