Thanks for the link on Charters in the Boston Area, Talent.
The underreported story about charter schools is the number of students turned away by the lotteries. You can't blame parents for applying at multiple charters if they are allowed to. It shows the intense desperation of parents who are assigned to government schools.
Boston was the epicenter, if I recall correctly, of anti-busing feelings in the late 60s. I agreed with the SC when it held that separate could not be equal. But one wonders what would have happened if the government had tried to bring good schools to the inner city rather than trying to bus inner-city kids to the suburbs (or to Southie).
Again, I recommend Waiting for Superman as a book/movie treating the subject of school choice from a liberal point of view.
The underreported story about charter schools is the number of students turned away by the lotteries. You can't blame parents for applying at multiple charters if they are allowed to. It shows the intense desperation of parents who are assigned to government schools.
Boston was the epicenter, if I recall correctly, of anti-busing feelings in the late 60s. I agreed with the SC when it held that separate could not be equal. But one wonders what would have happened if the government had tried to bring good schools to the inner city rather than trying to bus inner-city kids to the suburbs (or to Southie).
Again, I recommend Waiting for Superman as a book/movie treating the subject of school choice from a liberal point of view.
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