Virginia 40th of 45 States for Charter School Friendliness
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16 responses to “Virginia 40th of 45 States for Charter School Friendliness”
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In Thomas Sowell’s book Charter Schools and Their Enemies, Chapter 3 (Basic Books, 2020), the author discusses how some teachers unions, public school officials, and politicians have demonstrated strong hostility and active resistance to charter schools. Sowell’s discussion indicates that: (1) evidence of charter school success did not assuage the hostility towards charter schools, but rather served to intensify it; and (2) hostility toward charter schools occasionally was manifested by brazen efforts to ignore or simply not act on state laws favorable to charter schools, and even to some decisions that resulted in significant losses to taxpayers (e.g., selling a school building to a developer at a price LOWER than the price offered by a charter school; refusing to allow charter schools to use empty school buildings that were kept empty and maintained at taxpayer expense).
So, even if Virginia were to adopt some legislation favorable to charter schools, the question remains whether the new law were embraced or resisted (like the sad examples documented in Sowell’s book).
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My next book review here will be of Dr. Sowell’s book which you cite. I gave Bettina Love her say, and I will give Dr. Sowell his. That God he is a professional, and his is so much easier to read and review.
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In Thomas Sowell’s book Charter Schools and Their Enemies, Chapter 3 (Basic Books, 2020), the author discusses how some teachers unions, public school officials, and politicians have demonstrated strong hostility and active resistance to charter schools. Sowell’s discussion indicates that: (1) evidence of charter school success did not assuage the hostility towards charter schools, but rather served to intensify it; and (2) hostility toward charter schools occasionally was manifested by brazen efforts to ignore or simply not act on state laws favorable to charter schools, and even to some decisions that resulted in significant losses to taxpayers (e.g., selling a school building to a developer at a price LOWER than the price offered by a charter school; refusing to allow charter schools to use empty school buildings that were kept empty and maintained at taxpayer expense).
So, even if Virginia were to adopt some legislation favorable to charter schools, the question remains whether the new law were embraced or resisted (like the sad examples documented in Sowell’s book).
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My next book review here will be of Dr. Sowell’s book which you cite. I gave Bettina Love her say, and I will give Dr. Sowell his. That God he is a professional, and his is so much easier to read and review.
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It seems like it would be easier to politically sell Charter Schools if charters paid teachers comparatively more money with less daily bs bureaucratic hoops to jump though in a teaching day. Maybe even cut admins out of the pedagogy, have a teacher committee/senate take care of hire/fire, and let admins deal with discipline and parents.
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We won’t “sell” Democrats in Virginia on Charter schools until the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus unites behind them. I am doing my best to make that happen, but am not optimistic in the near term.
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It surprises me that the example of DC next door, predominantly Black school population, lots of successful charters with large Black attendance, seems to carry little weight with the VLBC.
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I suspect the operative color is green rather than black.
DC’s contribution limits:
https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/1-1163.33.html
Our General Assembly has been bought and paid for by special interests and BigEd, including the teachers’ “associations”, is one of the biggest special interests. When contributions are unlimited so is the influence of special interests.
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Having spent more time that I would like pushing uphill in the GA legislation that I drafted with Republican sponsorship, like Health Enterprise Zones, that upholds traditional Democratic values, only to see it voted against by Democrats under pressure from mega-donor rent-seeking lobbies like the hospitals, I am in absolute agreement.
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It seems like it would be easier to politically sell Charter Schools if charters paid teachers comparatively more money with less daily bs bureaucratic hoops to jump though in a teaching day. Maybe even cut admins out of the pedagogy, have a teacher committee/senate take care of hire/fire, and let admins deal with discipline and parents.
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We won’t “sell” Democrats in Virginia on Charter schools until the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus unites behind them. I am doing my best to make that happen, but am not optimistic in the near term.
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It surprises me that the example of DC next door, predominantly Black school population, lots of successful charters with large Black attendance, seems to carry little weight with the VLBC.
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I suspect the operative color is green rather than black.
DC’s contribution limits:
https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/1-1163.33.html
Our General Assembly has been bought and paid for by special interests and BigEd, including the teachers’ “associations”, is one of the biggest special interests. When contributions are unlimited so is the influence of special interests.
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Having spent more time that I would like pushing uphill in the GA legislation that I drafted with Republican sponsorship, like Health Enterprise Zones, that upholds traditional Democratic values, only to see it voted against by Democrats under pressure from mega-donor rent-seeking lobbies like the hospitals, I am in absolute agreement.
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