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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Anonymous wrote: Janeese wants to slash funding for charter schools to the tune of $9,000+ per student. Half the kids in this city go to charters. She HATES charters schools. She doesn't think they should exist. [/quote] This. Exactly this. Over half of the kids using public education in DC attend charter schools. DC has had over 20 years of trying to improve its regular public schools to compete with that statistic and lessen families' attraction to charters. This they have not done, because of DCPS' always inefficient central office coupled with the teachers' unions. If you want to destroy the charter system---which has managed to keep middle class families in the cities---then vote for JLG. (And Mamdani had virtually no education platform at all.) [/quote] The city already shortchanges charter schools in a million different ways, but we've never had a mayor who is anti-charter like Janeese is anti-charter. [/quote] What's the worst that could happen? She runs off middle-class families, DC loses population and tax base just as Downtown businesses are struggling and there's a hostile presence in the White House? Its curious to see if she sticks to her guns or if reality provides some quick moderation. [/quote]
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