REPEAL Charter School Act of 1992 in CA Ballot Initiative

Fully fund public education now'

Independent charter schools are wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!

I sign this with a heavy heart as I watched the LBUSD and California State Department of Education close a truly innovative, non-profit, community based independent charter in Long Beach, CA. I learned that type of school could not exist in the current climate of privatization, loss of community control, and fetishization of high stakes testing. After a lot of research and soul searching I think that the current charter school system must go. It's imperative that we value public education as a public good and work to provide true educational equality (e.g. equality of resources) to local public schools.

While I am not against the idea of charters, I find that the rules governing them, what they have done with them, and how they currently operate undermine everything that public education stands for. And because of this, I cannot support them despite how wonderful the idea sounds in isolation.

Yes! Repeal this now!

My neighborhood school is 80% latino, while the co-located charter school is 80% caucasian. The wealthy charter school parents get what amounts to a free private school for their children, complete with demographics with which they are more comfortable. There are two nearly completely segregated schools, "separate, but equal."

Charter schools have become a push by Wall Street investors to create a new source of huge profits. Students bring their ADA from public schools to these charters, where good or bad, and they deplete the public schools or imperative funding. The charters are selective, and often dump 'bad' students back on the public school, but they retain the taxpayer money. This must stop.

The primary reason I retired from teaching Lit & Comp to 10th-12th graders (at all ability/skill levels, including Honors/AP) for nearly three and a half decades was because of the steady and seemingly deliberate erosion of what public education should be and should aspire to, an erosion begun by Bush and Ron Paige with NCLB, and continued by Obama and Arne Duncan with RTTT, an erosion that seemed calculated to drain resources from public schools as well as damage and neglect the infrastructures and supports needed by public schools which would lay the groundwork for fiats and diktats "reforming" the system into one that could be corporatized and monetized as a result of legislation passed by people who had neither professional experience nor authoritative, credentialed knowledge about the needs and realities of classroom instruction in a country as heterogeneous as ours. I retired because public education was and is being betrayed by those in government and at the DOE who should be its steward and staunchest defender; I retired because those false stewards' implemented policies that forced districts into new untried/untested and unproven "strategies" and technologies to avoid sanctions, punishments and the with-holding of monies they so desperately needed; I retired because the game had been rigged both for and by supporters and cronies of corporatist interests and those who had been deified as the the most powerful "innovators" of the technology sector, all sowing the insidious creed of disruption as the via regia to the salvation of education and thereby destabilizing it further in a vulpine venture capitalist's horrendous parody of Permanent Revolution as the new foundation of education in America. I resigned rather than continue being passively complicit in betraying my own students, my own profession, my own experience, my own ideals, my own and faith in what public education should be. And I resigned for the sake of my own conscience, in the beli

"Enough is enough. It is time for the people of California to come together and take back our public schools from the profiteers. A REPEAL is long overdue. "

The public schools belong to the public. A universal public school system is important for our democracy,

The charter school INDUSTRY is at the heart of the corporate takeover of our public schools.

Clustering like students in public schools achieves the same goal. Loosening Principal's ability to devise restorative discipline guides and prevent parents from claiming bias in discipline would also help. Numbers of race suspensions do not tell the story. Individual stories tell the story. Make guidelines the story, not gross numbers.

Though I am from memphis area, the privatizers need to be stopped in the whole country.

Keep public schools public and community run. Get corporations out of public education.

Billionaires should not decide what is in the best interests of children. They should help public education, not try to create a parallel system.

Public school is the first step toward national success. It should not be turned over to private I tersts or become a for profit endeavor. The Charter School Act of 1992 is misused to everyone's detriment. It's time for it to go so we can focus funding and effort on our public schools.

School board trustee that sees the attempt to destroy public education through the ridiculous charter school laws in CA which are upheld by our faux teacher friendly legislature.

Corporations have one goal, to make money. Education is about helping students learn, not about making money.

Let California have the superb education that we used to have - - available for everyone.

Charter schools do NOT take all comers, they skim. This is a violation of ESEA so charters, essentially, are NOT public schools. They should not receive public funds, as Washington state has already recognized.