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In reply to the discussion: Some charter schools don't feed their students free lunches. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is cool with that. [View all]liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)10. I bet my autistic son wouldn't be very welcome at a charter
It would bring their test scores down too much.
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Some charter schools don't feed their students free lunches. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is cool with that. [View all]
KamaAina
Oct 2012
OP
Not so unlikely, because some charter schools have ways of avoiding 'those' students.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#54
yeah, none of the charter schools DUers support are like that, apparently. they're all wonderful
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#64
If a student lives in a district, s/he has to be provided an education in a district. That's the
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#74
a charter does *not* have to accept all students from its district, nor does it have to follow the
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#87
cafeterias and food cut into corporate profits and management bonuses. can't have that nt
msongs
Oct 2012
#16
Speaking of 'simple-minded,' none so blind as those with eyes who will not see. Jeesh - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#23
You must meet the same standards that the public schools must if you are to
MattBaggins
Oct 2012
#52
But they *don't* have to meet the same standards to receive federal money. That's the point.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#58
It's actually pretty astonishing what NC charters don't have to do. Don't have to do lunches,
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#57
No lunches and no transportation are what keeps many people without means from applying
Luminous Animal
Oct 2012
#53
Schools that provide lunches are reimbursed. And as initially, the only charter authorizers in NC
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#56
it's not a complicated issue. it's very simple. there's nothing that charter schools do that
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#76
there is nothing charter schools do that public schools can't do. there's nothing charter schools
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#86
You cherry pick your students and have no low income kids i am willing to bet.
MattBaggins
Oct 2012
#45
Around 1965, I believe. Free & reduced-price lunches for families who met the income guides.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#59
*All* charter schools are public schools, in that they are funded with tax dollars. However, that's
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#60
Jerry Brown sleeps very well at night. Not a disingenous bone in his beautiful body
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#73
you're sleeping with him, are you? because otherwise i don't know how you know that.
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#77
we do know Sandra Dey O'Connor twists and turns (and Rehnquist burns in hell)
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#80
brown's policies show him to be a libertarian: liberal on (some) social policy, neo-liberal on
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#88
libertarians are rightwing extremists who stroke their guns and watch others sex...
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#91
Those that are not for profit are eligible for federal lunch program funds.
LiberalAndProud
Oct 2012
#17
Even supposedly 'non-profit' charters can be profit centers. In NC, for example, charters can
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#62
I think we (USA) should provide a free hot lunch for every kid in every school,
CrispyQ
Oct 2012
#13
Very easy solution. Go back to public school and free lunches for those in need.
Doremus
Oct 2012
#20
The problem comes from many charter schools that are basically storefronts or in a few offices -
haele
Oct 2012
#22
At least one charter chain, Imagine, is basically built around a real-estate scam
KamaAina
Oct 2012
#36
Governor Brown -- comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted. I will never vote for
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#24
Charter schools are not public schools, but they syphon money from public schools.
Chorophyll
Oct 2012
#25
Or it could be that the school does not have the facility to safely provide the lunch.
wildeyed
Oct 2012
#31
I guess that parents will just send their kids to public schools so that they can get fed, right?
Freddie Stubbs
Oct 2012
#40
You are assuming that enough parents would send their kids to these obviously inferior
Freddie Stubbs
Oct 2012
#79
It's federal law, so it's hard to imagine it didn't exist in your district. Perhaps you didn't have
HiPointDem
Oct 2012
#75
and in many schools, great pains were taken so that the kids on the free-lunch
SoCalDem
Oct 2012
#81
What else will be exempted for charter schools so they can make a bigger profit?
LiberalFighter
Oct 2012
#65