The highest number of charter schools is in New York City, in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan. The biggest fight right now is the parents and the United Federation of Teachers campaign to keep certain schools from closing. The Department of Education has its sights on a list of schools to close for whatever reasons they deem underperforming, etc. These schools will be reopened, of course as K-6 or at other sites. Many of us feel the general consensus is the almighty Department of Education in its infinite wisdom will make these schools into charter schools.
Charter schools for the most part, take the best students. Forget special education or high-needs students, these schools want the least restrictive which of course is students who are in resource room. Forget about English Language Learners, their parents will be told that they do not offer them services. Charter schools won’t service students who are in 12:1:1, they do not want students with behavior issues.
Community schools accept the students with these classifications. Charter schools are out to make a profit off the backs of our children. Charter schools are even housed in community school buildings. Go to the parts of the building that is being utilized by charter schools. They are in better condition, nicely furnished with new desks, the state of the art technology, plenty of supplies and textbooks. What message does this send to the students who attend the community school? There needs to be a cap set on the charter schools.
In Peoria, Illinois where I’m from-the Edison Schools are closing down and going bankrupt. About ten years in New York City, they tried to bring them to the lower-performing schools, aka the poorer areas. Parents and staff fought it. Sure, there are areas of the country that the Edison Schools are doing very well. This is an example of how you can’t run the schools like a business which is what the charter schools are ultimately are-a business.
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BB,
A most excellent argument for Socialistic mediocrity. Grab those achievers by the leg and pull them back down into the sewer of our current public system. If they work hard and their parents care enough to get them away from undisciplined, poorly mannered, often violent surroundings, block their door to success.
Innovation, creativity and high standards are the poison of the Capitalist right! All they care about is filthy profit.
Unlike our Union brothers and sisters who strike more than a chain smokers matches for more money, for the children. Of course in the form of higher pay, better retirements, less working times (9 months at an average above the non-union counterparts, and right up there with police and fire), oh yes, and smaller classrooms, so they can ignore less children.
Detroit and DC spend more money per “public school” child than just about anywhere in the world! (nearly 12K per student) Yet the graduation rate is about 25%. A child there is more likely to go to prison than college.
You say charter schools are all about profit, silly goose, your teachers
unions are the most money grubbing lot I’ve seen (except for all other
unions). They obviously don’t care about quality education, the want bodies. The more bodies the more tax money, the more tax money, the more benefits to the union. If they let the good ones get away, they look bad and could lose money. It’s all very simple.
If you loathe students excelling outside the union control in charter schools, you must hate private schools. Now there is sicko profit for service unbridled. Obama must not realize what you do.
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In the biggest cities across America, the statistics get even more startling. In Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and 16 other big cities, more than 1 out of 4 public-school teacher’s kids attend private schools. In some cities, almost half the public-school teachers do this. For example, in Philadelphia, 44 percent, and in Cincinnati, 41 percent of public-school teachers sent their kids to private schools.
Yet, across America, only about 12.2 percent of all parents who are not teachers send their children to private schools.
Good Luck on keeping everybody on the same level. Maybe you could just unionize the students!