Charter schools vs public schools

Shouldn't we be for anything that increases educational opportunity for kids?

What if it benefits some kids and not others?

What if it benefits some kids at the expense of others?

That last question is the one that makes me oppose the charter school movement in this state.   I would support having pilot programs to help figure out what works.  But maybe we've already had those in the growing number of successful, as well as unsuccessful, charter schools.

Here's the latest.   Supporters claim that chater schools do not get more money from the government than the regular public schools do.   Well, if that was ever true, it no longer is -- at least not in Georgia.

A judge has just decided a case in which the issue was whether charter schools should be included in the financial obligation to pay into the pension fund deficit for teachers in the public school system they left.   The judge said no.   This means, per pupil, regular public schools will have to pay the total deficit without the allocation for the number of kids in charter schools.   

What does that mean?   It means more money for charter schools and less for regular public schools.

Ralph