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Reply to "NYT article on Walton-funded spread of charter schools in DC"
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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I too am still processing.... Interesting analogy from a professor (who seems objective-although objectivity is really hard to find in this can of worms): “When lots of charter schools open up, it’s like a new Walmart store moving in,” said Kevin G. Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado in Boulder. “You could look at it and say, ‘Well, the schools in a community are losing families because of healthy competition the same way that the hardware store is losing customers because of healthy competition.’ But that doesn’t take into account the long-term harms to the community, which are probably greater than any short-term benefit.” I wish they published more from him about the "long term harms". Do public schools completely crumble? Or can they somehow be built up to "compete" with charters? This is a great article, has me thinking about both sides of this coin. [/quote]
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