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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many conservatives believe in charter schools. It doesn't necessarily mean they have "ulterior" motives in funding charter schools. They may fund them because they believe -- and in order to prove -- that they work. I'm not at all conservative, but I don't see a problem with this. A city can separately decide whether to allow charters or not; but, once they do, why shouldn't conservatives pony up? Wouldn't it actually be hypocritical if they didn't given that the success of charters often relies on private fundraising?[/quote]

Yes, but the money behind charter schools comes from conservative billionaires like the DeVoses, [b]Bradley foundation[/b], etc.
Those conservative donors’ agenda is to damage public schools to:
- make money from privatization
- reduce number of conserv kids who learn about the world and thus become liberal (same reason the donors created Hillsdale, Liberty U, etc)
- keep people uneducated (no coincidence the biggest predictor of Trump voting was low education level)

Great if many conservatives immersed in a low-information conservative media bubble like charter schools.

But Charter schools are a win-win-win for conservative donors.  And outside of a few city schools where they bring up low performance levels, charter schools are a failure for the 99.99% of us that are not billionaires.
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Do you mean Katherine Bradley? Not a billionaire or conservative. But does have more influence on DCPS and charter education than elected and appointed officials. Different issue that's specific to DC.[/quote]

Why does Bradley have such influence?[/quote]

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