A group of researchers, parents, and other activists released a report on the inequitable provision of education in the nearly all-charter district of New Orleans. Their focus was the highest-risk neighborhoods, where the city’s poorest children live. The group is called Equity for All Places. Its report highlights the poor choices available to the neediest students in New Orleans.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
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Massachusetts was smart to vote against charter expansion. As charters expand, their ability to control the variables decreases. One way charters have been able to get results is to cherry pick those with the most potential and refuse to back fill openings when non-compliant students are dropped. This, of course, begs the question for why we should invest in a parallel corporate system that diminishes the capacity of common schools to provide the best education for all. If charters can only get results under idealized circumstances, are they really getting any worthy results at all? These same successful students would probably be successful in a well funded and resourced public school, and all the other students would benefit from attending a school in which the community had invested, instead of being forced to attend an impoverished public school or a cheap charter. Of course, there is no corporate profit in strong public education so we continue on our hostile takeover and “race to the bottom” with our blinders on.
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