When parents see Csar Chvez, they see a small school in good academic standing offering a host of extracurricular activities, and with fewer discipline
problems than other public schools.
Not exact matches
But then one would recall that
other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that
problems other than a lack of money afflict the
schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.
A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of
problems, including dramatically lower test scores
than traditional
public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of
other problems.
Put another way: Are we really expected to believe that everything
other than poverty is what's causing
problems in failing
public schools?