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<\/a>\n“Staff Writer” editorialized in the VDT 12 September 2012,\n\nWill charter schools hurt public education?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\nSo the state has consistently run down the public education system\nin Georgia over the course of the last decade by drastically cutting\nfunding from programs, but are now complaining because student test\nscores and graduation rates have decreased.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe state solution? Allow for basically anyone who has a building to\napply to run a \u201ccharter school\u201d that would siphon money\naway from public education. Students would be able to choose where\nthey would go, the parents or community officials would\n\u201crun\u201d the schools, and they would not have to meet the\nsame standards as the current public schools, but taxpayers would\nstill be forced to pay for them.\n<\/p>\n
\nState officials are fond of saying that charter schools aren’t\nprivate schools, but when a school gets to pick and choose who they\nlet in and who they don’t, that’s the definition of a private\nschool. Only the elite whose parents want to run the schools will\nhave a chance, and the poor and disenfranchised will have no choice,\nwill not be accepted, and will suffer even more because the money\nwill no longer be there to educate them.\n<\/p>\n
\nHere’s an idea: Restore all those drastic austerity cuts from\neducation to pre-Gov. \u201cSonny\u201d Perdue levels, invest in\nthe public education system which is already in place and doing\nquite well in spite of the state’s best efforts to shut it down, and\nrestore the true value of a public education to the taxpayers of the\nstate who are footing the bill and seeing fewer results.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nI like that idea. Let’s vote No on the charter school amendment in November\nso we can get back to funding public education.\n<\/p>\n
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