Do we want school choice or choice schools? The latter we do not have in general; we do have the opposite: too many bad schools. When the USA, for all its expenditure on education, ranks rather low on international tests, there obtains an indelible indicator. Hence, we witness the birth of the alternative, charter schools. We’ve always had the private schools as religious-based or expensive prep types. But they are part of the system, and not what the ed establishment decries. It is these new charter schools earning the black grades of some officials. Know their talking points*. The following are typical. 1. Privatized school choice will inevitably reduce funding for your local neighborhood public schools . 2. Direct and disguised vouchers to private schools and other public school alternatives start small and then expand, increasing the burden on taxpayers. 3. Additional administrative costs coupled with a lack of transparency waste taxpayer dollars a
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