Growing Evidence that Charter Schools Are Failing

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4. Restaurants were never about food.

They are for profit.


I think that might be true sometimes. Often it's not true. What is true is the means to the goal almost always requires generating profit, but it's possible to set up non-profit charters. Or state-run charters.

The anti-charter folk don't like those, either. There can be only one monolithic public school system.

For some, it's because then there are strong unions.

For others, it's because then there is strong government and political control. That might mean that the content is rigorous, or career oriented, or traditional, or culturally relevant. It might mean that the right social or political message is taught or at least the wrong ones are not taught. There's a long history of public schools being a means of social engineering and "social change." And a shorter history of schools being the means for economic advancement.