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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
Charter schools are very popular with Rs, and are generally vehemently opposed by Democrats and teacher's unions. Most every voucher program I can recall has been geared towards low-income communities with failing schools. Remind me who it was that wanted to withhold funding from the DC voucher program that significantly increased high school graduation rates?
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This is a complicated issue that you are giving short shrift. Just because voucher programs and charter schools sometimes aim at low income communities does not necessarily make them positive things. They tend to pluck a certain percentage of kids who would be successful and whose parents would have been actively involved in the public school system out of that system, leaving it completely destroyed. Apparently when it comes to performance, when you average out charter school performance, they don't do much better than public schools. And the barriers to entry for these charter schools are so low in so many states, that they often fail in the middle of the fucking year.
It's a tough issue and John Oliver just covered it a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_htSPGAY7I
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