Friday, October 3, 2008

A Trojan Horse Made of Charter-School Money

Like a modern day Odysseus, Obama is plotting to smuggle the National Education Association (NEA) into charter schools. Obama has concocted a beguiling vow to double the amount of funding for charter schools. What better way to conceal NEA marauders and meddlesome bureaucrats than to stuff them inside deceptive government handouts? [snip]

In response to Obamas comprehensive scheme for education reform, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said this about successful charter school:

"The key is to identify what is working that can be sustained and reproduced on a broad scale so that as many students as possible can benefit."

But considering that charter schools operate with much less government funding and far fewer essential assets than traditional schools require, are so-called education reformers and NEA kingpins sincerely interested in identifying how charter schools can still match and surpass traditional school results?

Nevertheless, Obamas announcement about doubling charter-school funding has surely left some charter supporters feeling effervescent. The Trojans apparently felt the same way as they dragged the wooden horse into Troy.

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