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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I get that you hate charter schools or whatever but I don't understand the hand wringing about out of state money. I donate to plenty of candidates in races outside of DC, does that somehow taint them?[/quote]

I don't hate charter schools. Both of my sons attended a charter school. I don't mind outside money from small donors like yourself. But PACs funded by deep-pocketed  monied interests have a corrupting influence. Where would Goulet be without DFER backing? That's the only thing that made him a significant candidate. Moreover, DFER in particular is dishonest about its agenda. If it just came out and said, "we want to privatize public schools so that our hedge fund backers can make money from education" that would be fine. Instead, they act like they are concerned about crime or whatever issue polls well. [/quote]

Jeff, I'm with you but I subscribe to a different conspiracy theory.

Charter school backers want to have government-paid religious schools in the guise of charter schools. Not in DC, but in the red states. They push them upon DC because they want to be able to point from their red state at how many charter schools we have here and say, "we should try that too." [/quote]

This is definitely an explanation for some of the support for Charter schools. But, I don't know if it explains DFER's support. Possibly, but that is a more obvious explanation in other cases.
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