One
of GCI's findings indicates that 77 percent
of charter schools engage in
questionable financial practices; most would agree that Arizona does not have sufficient
funds for
public education to risk having money
used for expenses that are not in the financial interests
of public school students.
Second, I would
use these two parallel lines
of development to ask the question: is it possible that, regardless
of the best intentions on all parts, the intersection
of science,
funding, politicians, media and
public policy is doomed to create bad science (in terms
of oversimplification and suppression
of uncertainty),
questionable public policy and, in the internet age, bitter acrimony amongst those who should be colleagues?