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In reply to the discussion: TN stripped local district of 3.4 million for refusing charter school that asked $1,200 of parents. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)2. Privatising education, another wonderful left-over Bush policy that needs to be
ended. I don't see how the School Board has the authority to deprive a Public School of much needed funds for education over a dispute like this?
Is there a list of the people on the board, are the Repubs, Dems?
'Where is the outrage'! Good question. Where was it when this all began with Bush's disastrous and cynically named 'No Child Left Behind'.
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TN stripped local district of 3.4 million for refusing charter school that asked $1,200 of parents. [View all]
madfloridian
Nov 2012
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The teachers' unions in many cases are weak at best. Right to work = freeloader problem for unions.
Selatius
Nov 2012
#48
Privatising education, another wonderful left-over Bush policy that needs to be
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#2
This really underscores why the public schools need to be much better funded in the first place.
SheilaT
Nov 2012
#15
You're right. Unfortunately that is what charter schools do....defund local public schools.
madfloridian
Nov 2012
#17
Lol, I knew you would. And your work needs a bigger audience which it gets on Twitter.
sabrina 1
Nov 2012
#42
Charter schools usually underperform, and are rife with management and $$ issues.
progressivebydesign
Nov 2012
#20
I think in TN all you have to do is pray hard enough and the Lord will provide such gifts to
valerief
Nov 2012
#21
The term "Charter school" is deliberately deceiving. It implies something organic or pure: Pure BS
lindysalsagal
Nov 2012
#26
The reason it's hard to keep on the front burner is both parties agree on it...
madfloridian
Nov 2012
#34
Rick Scott and FL Legislature gave 50 million to charters, 0 to public schools, for maintenance.
madfloridian
Nov 2012
#52
ouch. I hope you keep coming back to DU more! We need to be educated too, you know!
DonRedwood
Nov 2012
#54
The middleman always makes things more expensive: or, in taxpayer math, privatization equals
GiaGiovanni
Nov 2012
#55