Stewart says the wider
charter school movement is failing to get its message
out, in large part because it's forgetting about the first commandment
of politics: IT»S ALL ABOUT YOUR BASE.
The CTA's fight over Race to the Top brings
out traditional political tensions between unions and
charter schools — but also introduces philanthropists as a new force
of power in the
politics of education, said University
of California, Berkeley, education professor Bruce Fuller.