Education Secretary Arne Duncan Pushes to Aggressively Expand Charter Schools While Admitting Problems

Democracy Now by Kenneth Surratt, Bob Peterson, JUAN GONZALEZ, AMY GOODMAN | Jun. 23, 2009 (News Analysis)

(Video) The Obama administration has made opening more charter schools one of its top priorities in its plans to improve the nation’s education system. On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at the annual gathering of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC. His address came on the heels of a new Stanford University report that found that, on average, students in charter schools were not faring as well as students in ... Full Story »

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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jun. 23, 2009

A TV roundtable discussion format in which a variety of people express their opinions about the value of charter schools. When I first retired I thought my experience and advanced education would be of value as a substitute teacher. My experience substituting in charter schools was that it was substandard education in the field of public education–itself a major scandal of incompetence, politics, penurious education, and who gives a damn about students?. Interestingly, when charter school teachers were offered jobs in “real” education–that is, in public schools–to a person, they jumped at the chance.

In the 70s my brother-in-law, a Ph.D in education and superintendent of schools in a major city, said public education was dead. Schools function only as surrogate parents and babysitters.

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