{"id":177869,"date":"2019-05-18T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/18\/yet-again-bernie-is-right\/"},"modified":"2019-05-18T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:33:00","slug":"yet-again-bernie-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/18\/yet-again-bernie-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Again, Bernie is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanders is calling on a ban for for-profit charter schools and a halt to further charter school expansion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wholeheartedly approve.<\/p>\n

Charters are unaccountable, and frequently corrupt, as well as being the darlings of Wall Street money:<\/p>\n

As president, Bernie Sanders would support a ban on for-profit charter schools<\/a> and a blanket moratorium on public funding for all new charters, the candidate announced in a speech on Saturday, throwing down a new gauntlet on the left in the Democratic debate over education reform.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Vermont senator laid out a broad education agenda that seeks to address racial disparities on the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Sanders\u2019s plan is quite ambitious, thought it lacks some important details. <\/p>\n

He wants to triple federal Title I funding for schools that serve a large number of low-income students, set a national salary floor for teachers of $60,000, and provide universal school meals: breakfast, lunch, and snacks for every student year-round. <\/p>\n

But his proposed prohibition on for-profit charter schools and temporary ban on government spending on new nonprofit charters is a foray into the most divisive piece of the education reform debate. Charter schools have been a source of debate for years between mainstream liberals who see charters as a promising alternative to the traditional public schools and the labor left that considers them an attack on teachers unions because charters are typically unorganized. <\/p>\n

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For existing charter schools, Sanders would propose that they be subject to the same oversight requirements as regular schools, that half of a charter school\u2019s board members be parents and teachers, and that charters be required to disclose certain student and funding data.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Charter schools do not in the whole outperform public schools, and we have seen repeated examples of corruption and self-dealing, so ending for-profit chains, and placing a hold on expansion until appropriate oversight can be implemented is just basic good governance.<\/p>\n

I would prefer to see them shut down completely, I think that they are primarily an attempt to loot, with a side order of union busting, but this is a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanders is calling on a ban for for-profit charter schools and a halt to further charter school expansion. I wholeheartedly approve. Charters are unaccountable, and frequently corrupt, as well as being the darlings of Wall Street money: As president, Bernie Sanders would support a ban on for-profit charter schools and a blanket moratorium on public …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[615,673,397,405],"class_list":["post-177869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-charter-schools","tag-education","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}