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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does out of state charter mom keep telling us about the law in her state?  This is about Virginia.[/quote]

I assume because she has experience with both FCPS and charters in another state, and people have suggested the new Secretary of Education in Virginia will support more charter schools in Virginia?

It doesn't seem like a stretch.  Why are you trying to silence other posters?  [/quote]

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It's so telling, isn't it?  The anti-charter school crowd is incredibly dishonest, with all their fear-mongering.  Michael Bloomberg explains why he is donating $750 of his own money to fund charter schools across the nation:

American public education is broken. Since the pandemic began, students have experienced severe learning loss because schools remained closed in 2020—and even in 2021 when vaccinations were available to teachers and it was clear schools could reopen safely. Many schools also failed to administer remote learning adequately.

Before the pandemic, about two-thirds of U.S. students weren’t reading at grade level, and the trend has been getting worse. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly known as the nation’s report card, show that in 2019, eighth-grade math scores had already fallen significantly.

Teachers understand the severity of the problem, and many are doing heroic work, yet some of their union representatives are denying reality. “There is no such thing as learning loss,” said Cecily Myart-Cruz, head of the Los Angeles teachers union, in an interview with Los Angeles Magazine this past summer. “Our kids didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience.”

What nonsense. How about reading, writing and arithmetic, the critical skills we are funding schools to teach?

We know what works, because we can see it in real time. Success Academy’s network of 47 public charter schools is serving New York children whose families predominantly live below the poverty line. [b]Their students are outperforming public-school students in Scarsdale, N.Y.—the wealthiest town on the East Coast and the second-wealthiest town in America—by significant margins.[/b] Yet a statewide cap on charter schools is blocking Success Academy from expanding.

We need a new, stronger model of public education that is based on evidence, centered on children, and built around achievement, excellence and accountability for all. The future of America’s most vulnerable children—and of our country—is riding on whether we can deliver it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-bloomberg-why-im-backing-charter-schools-covid-19-learning-loss-teachers-union-11638371324[/quote]

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