The Conservative College That’s Expanding to Charter Schools

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Hillsdale College is building a national, publicly funded charter school network — and fighting what it calls leftist teaching.

Hillsdale has ambitious plans to add to its network of classical public charter schools, which focus on “the centrality of the Western tradition.” And Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee recently invited the college to start 50 schools using public funds, including $32 million set aside for charter facilities. Hillsdale’s network currently includes 24 schools in 13 states.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/hillsdale-college-charter-schools.html
 
“I’ve been following charter schools over the last 25 years, and I’ve never seen a governor attempting to use charters in such an overtly political way,” said Bruce Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. “You’ve had governors who’ve encouraged the growth of charters to provide more high-quality options for parents, but it’s highly unusual to see a governor deploy the charter mechanism for admittedly political purposes.”
 
If their graduates are set for college or getting a good paying job out of high school, then they're doing far better than the public school system regardless of their political leanings.
 
Charter schools are about profits. Their results are close to what public schools provide. Some charters are run very badly. But the wealthy Repub owners can direct the curricula. That is another reason Trump put DeVos in power. They want tax money to pay for private education and they will get it.
 
Nordberg said:
Charter schools are about profits. Their results are close to what public schools provide. Some charters are run very badly. But the wealthy Repub owners can direct the curricula. That is another reason Trump put DeVos in power. They want tax money to pay for private education and they will get it.
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Studies I have seen conclude that public schools perform at least as well as charter schools.
 
It depends on who you ask. Charter school proponents say charters outperform public schools. Public school proponents say the opposite. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. On the whole both probably perform about the same. But that said, there are crappy charter schools and there are crappy public schools. The only difference is that crappy charters generally don't last because they get driven out of the market. On the other hand, a crappy public school can go on forever and never improve.
 
BidenPresident said:
Hillsdale College is building a national, publicly funded charter school network — and fighting what it calls leftist teaching.

Hillsdale has ambitious plans to add to its network of classical public charter schools, which focus on “the centrality of the Western tradition.” And Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee recently invited the college to start 50 schools using public funds, including $32 million set aside for charter facilities. Hillsdale’s network currently includes 24 schools in 13 states.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/hillsdale-college-charter-schools.html
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Thanks for the great encouraging information.
 
Nordberg said:
Charter schools are about profits. Their results are close to what public schools provide. Some charters are run very badly. But the wealthy Repub owners can direct the curricula. That is another reason Trump put DeVos in power. They want tax money to pay for private education and they will get it.
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You know who are often really big fans of charter schools? Poor, often minority, families whose only other alternative is a low performing public school. You know who are often against them? Teachers unions and then well to do families who give lip service to public schools then either send their kids to private school or move out of their urban area and send their kids to largely affluent and largely white public schools.

It’s easy to virtue signal your support for public school when you have money.
 
BidenPresident said:
Hillsdale College is building a national, publicly funded charter school network — and fighting what it calls leftist teaching.

Hillsdale has ambitious plans to add to its network of classical public charter schools, which focus on “the centrality of the Western tradition.” And Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee recently invited the college to start 50 schools using public funds, including $32 million set aside for charter facilities. Hillsdale’s network currently includes 24 schools in 13 states.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/hillsdale-college-charter-schools.html
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Uh, any chance these are 'Christian' schools?
 
cawacko said:
You know who are often really big fans of charter schools? Poor, often minority, families whose only other alternative is a low performing public school. You know who are often against them? Teachers unions and then well to do families who give lip service to public schools then either send their kids to private school or move out of their urban area and send their kids to largely affluent and largely white public schools.

It’s easy to virtue signal your support for public school when you have money.
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Why do conservatives always lie about this? Is their racism this deep?
 
PostmodernProphet said:
lol.....did you just call Cawacko a conservative?.....if I recall correctly he voted for Feinstein......
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I did vote for Feinstein. The context there was I did not vote for her in the primary but in the General there were two options, both Democrats, and her opponent was more liberal than her.

Regarding charter schools Candidate Obama ran on a platform in 2008 of doubling funding for federal charter schools. Many, but not all, in the Democratic Party have since turned away from supporting charter schools but there is bi-partisan support for them.
 
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