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Originally Posted by crockett
Charter School is almost always code word for right wing nutter parents..All these shitty charter schools became a thing after Bush gave them funding.
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Bill Clinton and and his family foundation have long been involved in the promotion of charter schools.
In 2005, he opened a children?s zone headquarters in Harlem that houses a charter school while announcing a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the Teacher?s College at Columbia University. The next year he and former President Bush announced a grant for new charter schools in New Orleans.
The Clinton Global Initiative helped steer millions of donations to charter schools across the United States, including in Tennessee, Texas and Los Angeles, as well as India.
In A September 2012 blog post on the foundation website, former Minnesota state Sen. Ember Reichgott Junge credited Bill Clinton as ?a powerful advocate for the chartering movement from its beginning.?
In South Carolina, Clinton did acknowledge she had supported charter schools for three decades, promoting them in her last presidential run.
?The president believes, as I do, that charter schools are a way of bringing teachers and parents and communities together ? instead of other efforts ? like vouchers ? which separate people out ? siphon off much needed resources; and weakening the school systems that desperately need to be strengthened,? said Clinton, then fist lady, at a 1998 White House meeting.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/poli...e44787591.html
Under Obama
The U.S. Department of Education announced today new grants totaling approximately $245 million under its Charter Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation. Today?s grants are being awarded to state educational agencies and charter management organizations.