The Longview (Texas) News-Journal doesn’t understand why Longview needs charter schools. A chain of 7 is opening.
But the answer, the newspaper says, is money.
The charters will get more money than the public schools. After all, they need more money for field trips, for international field trips. What?
The charter industry is making its move in Texas.
Will Beto stand up for public schools even though his wife operates a charter?
If he doesn’t, he can write off the votes of teachers and public school parents.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Diane From a national view, it looks like we are playing Charter School whack-a-mole. CBK
Imagine the boost Beto would get if his wife were to divest from her charter connections completely, announce the error of her ways, and join forces with, for example, the Texas pastors? The ground would noticeably rumble in all 50 states.
KA-CHING … doubt it.
The questions Texans should be asking is why does a privatized system merit more funding than a public one? Clearly, charters are being given preferential treatment in the school funding formula while public schools are getting less. Pennsylvania had a similar problem that caused public schools to borrow repeatedly and, in some cases, almost collapse. The people of Texas should demand that the state revise its funding formula to charter schools that nobody gets a vote on, and pay more attention to the schools that serve all students and represent the democratic choice of voters in the state. While they are at it, they need to reexamine their flawed recapture formula. It is making cities like Dallas, Houston and Austin that already have considerable charter drain appear “wealthy” making them candidates for a second round of cuts.
Texans are cowboys and cowboys know about manure and beef. Education is money in the eyes of texans means more meat and more cowboy boots and hats forget about public ed in this town of teeth gaps and cowboy straps