Charter schools are privately
run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.
Charter schools are privately
run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.
Not exact matches
Since announcing her
run for Congress, Maggie Brooks has been saddled
with an ongoing corruption investigation that includes questions regarding Brooks» husband and the possible misuse of $ 224 million dollars in
taxpayer money, and has been dogged by her unwillingness to address the issues, ineffective leadership, and her record of increasing County taxes, fees and debt.
For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if
taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers
with computers, replacing public schools
with privately
run charter schools, etc.).
Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it
runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance
with agencies to extract more
money from
taxpayers for their members.
And I certainly don't expect it from grown up DPhils
running «important» blogs
with taxpayer's
money.