The Games Charter Schools Play.

[madfloridian]

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Was all of this a cunningly devised smokescreen to so financially weaken public schools that they'd be declared "failures" to advance a right-wing agenda of certain governors, legislatures, and the school privatization industry?

First bleed the public schools white over years to discredit them with the public, whereupon those "failed" public schools would then become charters?

In addition, you would have billions of taxpayer dollars with no accountability, as well as vast amounts of investment capital and dark money gushing into charter school coffers as quid pro quo payoffs to politicians who made it all happen?

"Billions of tax dollars with no accountability"....test the kids with increasingly harder tests then declare failure for public schools. Charters wait in the wings.