A lot of parents have had
kids in charter schools by now, and the global attack on the principle comes across as simply ill - informed and ideological.
«If we double the number
of kids in charter schools from 100,000 to 200,000, we get every kid off the waitlist and into a school they deserve.»
You may enjoy sabotaging
kids in charter schools from your perches in suburban Albany office parks, but I'd like you to look our kids in the eye and tell them what your lobbying efforts would mean for them.
Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that
kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.
«You can't learn about charter schools by studying 3 percent
of kids in charter schools, because charter school students are only one and a half percent of American students,» says Hoxby.
«There are over 100,000
kids in charter schools, over 40,000 on waiting lists, which tells me that there is a crying need on behalf of parents to make sure there kids get a good education,» Flanagan said.
«Ninety three percent of
the kids in charter schools are minorities that finally got a chance to succeed, and we shouldn't be kicking them in the butt, pardon my language,» he said.
Yet on key comparisons, especially by students» race, there is no statistically significant difference between the performance of
kids in charter schools and traditional public schools.
he charter killer bill did give an extra dose of motivation to parents and
kids in charter schools.
Nobody is suggesting we FORCE parents to put
their kids in a charter school.
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Kids in charter schools are being treated like second - class citizens when it comes to funding.