This is bad. The state board is full of the worst conservative ghouls imaginable, the very same people who rewrote history textbooks to say workers instead of slaves. Houston ISD has over 200,000 students.
This is bad. The state board is full of the worst conservative ghouls imaginable, the very same people who rewrote history textbooks to say workers instead of slaves. Houston ISD has over 200,000 students.
I don’t get how charter schools are popular with the conservatives and the government. You essentially have private schools funded with tax payers money. I know consistency is not their strong suit, but shouldn’t they be angry because it’s government interference
Charter schools are funded through state-wide taxes, whereas public schools are typically funded by local property taxes from people living/working in school districts. Charter schools end up slashing property taxes and help facilitate growth of suburbs filled with McMansions. That's why. Less taxes for hog boat dealership owners.
I assume the curriculum changes too maybe? I don't know how the US education system works, but there is this age old dispute over wether kids should maybe see a painting at school sometimes and wether they should be taught to be walmart greeters from birth to high school graduation (age 12, working age).
Charter schools are regarded as "experimental" and aren't subject to the same legal oversight as public schools. I don't know if these things exist elsewhere, but I hope not.
They're run for profit and aren't administered by any government, they're operated by interest groups who have a contract with the state. They're effectively what @MaoistLandlord called them, private schools funded with tax money.
They're also highly inefficient. Kids going to charter schools are usually getting a much worse education than even the worst public schools. I remember there was some kind of study on charter schools in Alabama saying something like for every 100 days of education a public student would get, an equivalent charter student was getting 0.
awesome. the lack of legal oversight and standards means this is just tax farming via schools.
there are public charter schools administered by local school districts but none of this debate is about them.
It's because the public schools fell down on the job over, and over, and over, and over. With bureaucrats, taking their influence away is the only thing they understand. The kids don't really have anything to do with it.
I remember one of those old-fashioned "Demotivator" posters with a picture of Khan from Star Trek II with his face bloodied when he's trying to self-destruct the Reliant and take Kirk out with him and the caption "Spite: it's not about me winning, it's about you losing"
The key to understanding conservatives views on education is that they tend to dislike public schools in general but they like their own schools specifically. Where I live, conservatives (those with kids at least, this doesn't apply to older ones) will actually be OK with tax increases to improve their own school district. But they still like to rail against public schools as a concept. This is why these voucher and charter programs always seem to happen in predominantly poor and minority-majority districts. The conservatives don't want to touch their own schools so this get forcibly placed on those schools.
(There's also religious conservatives who want to see public schools broken up so it's easier for them to send their kids to religious indoctrination schools, but I don't think they're a majority even among religious conservatives).