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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always hear good things about Ember charter school, a predominantly black school in Brooklyn.

Why does it matter if schools are public or charter as long as there is equitable access?[/quote]

Why does it matter if school employees have health insurance and job protections?[/quote]

I mean matters to the kids, the objective that should be priority.

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My home town went hard core into charter schools to solve their declining and underfunded public schools.  It was such a mess.  They had charter schools in strip malls.  They had charter schools teaching whatever crazy curriculum they wanted — one of my nephews went to a “Montessori” one and turned out to be illiterate because no one had taught him to read.  Many had super high teacher turnover and just had teachers.  The theory behind charters is that they can be more creative and less regulated.  But unless they are closely monitored with guard rails in place, it’s just a money making machine for companies that serve customers (kids) who aren’t well situated to police the product being served to them.  
I know of some great charter schools—but it seems like when a system goes heavily into charter schools, it attracts the bad apples and is just much harder to monitor the quality of the product.[/quote]

Its more than cherry picking the best performing, best behaved students with the most committed parents. Charters can also counsel out or directly push out underperforming or problem students. They can kick a student out, keep the money from the government that was attached to that student, and that student ends up in a public school. [b]That now has to deal with an underperforming/problem student without the money needed for that student.[/b][/quote]

What are you talking about?  Funding follows students.  If you are admitting that public schools need to use all of the per student funding from average students to subsidize the more resource intensive underperforming students, well, that is another issue that we should talk about directly.[/quote]

The funding kicks in the fall. In DCps they had count day where all the kids were officially counted as being enrolled. After that the charters were free to kick kids out since they got their money from that student.[/quote]

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