School choice is a shell game, a con, don’t believe anyone or anything else.
South Carolina remains a disturbing subset of the larger education reform movement effectively dismantling but not improving pubic schools, institutions that have historically and are currently failing vulnerable student populations who need public opportunities more than anyone.
Charleston is now the battle ground over expanding charter schools and embracing the already failed turnaround or takeover models that many early adopters in other states are ending.
The public version of the debate has included the following:
- Beware of ‘turnaround’ school districts (see compilation of research at the end)
- Beware of privatizing public education, Millicent Brown and Jon Hale
- Momentum grows for Charleston education, Anita Zucker and Ted Legasey
- Brentwood and Burns make public schools work for kids
- Don’t trust ‘free market’ reforms for public schools, The Rev. Joseph A. Darby
Beyond the specifics of the issues of this debate about takeover policies and charter school expansion (and the implications of privatizing public…
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Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé 
ciedie aech
April 5, 2016 at 12:28
The fight over saving public opportunity is exactly what you say, now, in 2016: A true battleground. The fight is becoming bigger and bolder and more organized each year.
Lloyd Lofthouse
April 5, 2016 at 15:59
Those who want to destroy the republic that was built by the U.S. Founding fathers have very deep pockets and agendas that have nothing in common with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. I fear, rightly, that the only way they will be stopped is a bloody revolution that either ends in 99% of the people dead and enslaved or the 1% banished from the Earth.