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St. Cloud’s school board told it like it is about charters, and nothing’s happening
They did so back in August.
School leaders say they’re tired of losing money to charter schools that prey on their enrollment and then return kids to district schools who often barely meet state reading and math requirements.
Because of this, the St. Cloud Area school district is asking the state for better accountability over charter schools. It also wants to be free from transportation requirements for charters that cost the district $1 million a year.
(StarTribune)I looked around for a while this morning, and apparently since then nothing’s happened. The DFL-controlled legislature may look into some things, this upcoming session, but I have a strong feeling that it won’t be prioritized and that little if anything will come of it. That is, the failed charter movement won’t even begin to be properly dealt with, here in Minnesota. [...]
This is from something I wrote here a while ago.
The real problem that right-wingers have with public schools is that we are getting results. Among other things, they’re turning out young people who are knowledgeable and willing and able to reason from fact. Such people are too, in a word, intelligent, to buy into right-wing imbecile nonsense.
It is hard to think to disagree.