REPEAL Charter School Act of 1992 in CA Ballot Initiative
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Irving Milbury
11 years ago
As a former charter school teacher, I feel that I can authoritatively stand against them. They are no good for education in this country.
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Gustavo Mejias
11 years ago
Education is a democratic right that should guarantee academic freedom and freedom of speech for the students that can't happen with Charter (private) education by its very nature this can only be guarantee with public education!
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Joseph Herzog
11 years ago
50 years a public school educator and proud of it No charters, no vouchers, No Eli Broad, No Koch Brothers, No Bill Gates, No Pearson, no more racism, no more elitism.Public schools, run by teachers for the benefit of children.
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Martha Evans
11 years ago
Restore good public schools
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Karen Cusolito
11 years ago
Charter schools kick out students who are not on track to graduate and send them to public schools. Shameful.
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jeanie keltner
11 years ago
Schools should not be profit centers!
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Tom Lacey
11 years ago
Charter Schools are a "Trojan Horse" for privatization, as Danny Glover has demonstrated re: New Orleans. Its a classic example of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine.". All it takes is a disaster to put into play what was already planned. The Governor proved that theory in New Orleans - less than two weeks after Katrina..
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rosemary crespo-storelee
11 years ago
Vote NO on charter schools...we've come a long way... why go back to an idea that supports segregation?!
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Ellen Murray
11 years ago
Charter Schools and Google Buses are one and the same, Gut the public system and segregate the users.
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Stanley DiCarlo
11 years ago
Keep publicly funded schools in public hands.
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Frank Higginbotham
11 years ago
I'm for keep charter schools out of Public Education. And supporting a strong public schools.
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Barbara Wolfe
11 years ago
Privatizing public education is detrimental to our children, detrimental to our economy, and detrimental to our country. It will ruin one of our most precious gifts....DIVERSITY! It will literally make it impossible to keep our society mobile.
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Vaughn L. Zeller
11 years ago
A free public education is the right of every citizen of the United States. Charter schools are a way to maintain the ability of those of means to a better level of teaching. Those who cannot afford them are left with a substandard education. This is something that no democracy which wants to protect freedom and equal rights can tolerate.
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Mateo Jorabez
11 years ago
I started teaching in public schools in 1992. Charters are not what they were meant to be.
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Mary Kay Beck
11 years ago
The charter school act is an abomination. Repeal it.
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Jeffrey Pott
11 years ago
Charter schools exist because reactionaries finally realized they weren't going to get the vouchers they had fought for for so long and billionaires with zero interest in education noticed that there was a huge pile of public funds in education that they just itched to get their greasy fingers on. The fact that both groups are hostile to organized workers and that charters are a direct attack on teachers unions only sweetened the matter for them. Those who claim charters are about "reform" or "competition" in the education field are either consciously disingenuous or live in a fantasy world. Save public education and end charters now!
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Mrs. Deborah Pietropaolo
11 years ago
Our voices matter and public schools belong to the communities and taxpayers that fund them!
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Patricia Glueck
11 years ago
There's a lack of proper oversight for charter schools. I also disagree strongly with the charter schools being able to co-locate onto an existing public school campus
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Susan McCall Carrasco
11 years ago
Charter Schools are:
A. The new Cash Cows of the GOP,
B. And incubators of future sheep-mentality trained Voters;
C. Dangerous for American Democracy.
When did America walk away from their commitment to a world class education for its Children - when it slashed Education Funding and began the rapid descent to middle of the end of World Standings of Industrialized Modern Nations.
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Karen Adlum
11 years ago
Charter schools are not common schools and are destroying out democratic school system!
As a former charter school teacher, I feel that I can authoritatively stand against them. They are no good for education in this country.
Education is a democratic right that should guarantee academic freedom and freedom of speech for the students that can't happen with Charter (private) education by its very nature this can only be guarantee with public education!
50 years a public school educator and proud of it No charters, no vouchers, No Eli Broad, No Koch Brothers, No Bill Gates, No Pearson, no more racism, no more elitism.Public schools, run by teachers for the benefit of children.
Restore good public schools
Charter schools kick out students who are not on track to graduate and send them to public schools. Shameful.
Schools should not be profit centers!
Charter Schools are a "Trojan Horse" for privatization, as Danny Glover has demonstrated re: New Orleans. Its a classic example of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine.". All it takes is a disaster to put into play what was already planned. The Governor proved that theory in New Orleans - less than two weeks after Katrina..
Vote NO on charter schools...we've come a long way... why go back to an idea that supports segregation?!
Charter Schools and Google Buses are one and the same, Gut the public system and segregate the users.
Keep publicly funded schools in public hands.
I'm for keep charter schools out of Public Education. And supporting a strong public schools.
Privatizing public education is detrimental to our children, detrimental to our economy, and detrimental to our country. It will ruin one of our most precious gifts....DIVERSITY! It will literally make it impossible to keep our society mobile.
A free public education is the right of every citizen of the United States. Charter schools are a way to maintain the ability of those of means to a better level of teaching. Those who cannot afford them are left with a substandard education. This is something that no democracy which wants to protect freedom and equal rights can tolerate.
I started teaching in public schools in 1992. Charters are not what they were meant to be.
The charter school act is an abomination. Repeal it.
Charter schools exist because reactionaries finally realized they weren't going to get the vouchers they had fought for for so long and billionaires with zero interest in education noticed that there was a huge pile of public funds in education that they just itched to get their greasy fingers on. The fact that both groups are hostile to organized workers and that charters are a direct attack on teachers unions only sweetened the matter for them. Those who claim charters are about "reform" or "competition" in the education field are either consciously disingenuous or live in a fantasy world. Save public education and end charters now!
Our voices matter and public schools belong to the communities and taxpayers that fund them!
There's a lack of proper oversight for charter schools. I also disagree strongly with the charter schools being able to co-locate onto an existing public school campus
Charter Schools are: A. The new Cash Cows of the GOP, B. And incubators of future sheep-mentality trained Voters; C. Dangerous for American Democracy. When did America walk away from their commitment to a world class education for its Children - when it slashed Education Funding and began the rapid descent to middle of the end of World Standings of Industrialized Modern Nations.
Charter schools are not common schools and are destroying out democratic school system!