Seeking yet another opportunity to discredit online public charter schools, advocacy journalist Jessica Calefati has filed her latest based largely on teacher union taking points.
Calefati – who has a reputation of ignoring facts to justify an anti-charter narrative – now advocates CTA’s latest effort to fight “the coordinated agenda by a group of billionaires to divert money from California’s neighborhood public schools to privately-managed charter schools.”
It’s remarkable that for all the concerns of billionaire scapegoats running public schools, Calefati fails to interview any online charter school parents who are simply seeking a better education option for their student.
Vowing to fight public school profiteering, Democratic state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would either block or seriously limit for-profit companies’ ability to operate charter schools in California.
The two proposals seek to address a growing concern among legislators that Wall Street-traded companies managing some of the state’s charters are raking in mountains of state aid while providing students a poor education.
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