Hundreds of parents band together to oppose charter school expansion

[Disir]

Hundreds of parents with children in the Boston school system have launched a spirited campaign to halt efforts on Beacon Hill to open more charter schools in the city and elsewhere.

The parents say that cities and the state cannot afford to fund additional schools, pointing out for instance that the Boston school system is facing budget cuts.

Members of the group have been meeting with key lawmakers, testifying at legislative hearings, and circulating an online petition advocating against a bill that would lift a state-imposed cap on charter school enrollment. As of Sunday, the petition had received more than 2,200 signatures.

The campaign is believed to be the largest and most aggressive parent-driven effort in the state to stop raising the charter-school cap. It follows a similar effort by teachers unions, which have launched letter-writing campaigns to persuade legislators to oppose the measure.

Charter school advocates also have been lobbying legislators and have taken out ads on MBTA buses in support of more charter schools. Efforts on all fronts have been so intense that the Joint Education Committee decided last week to delay a decision on the legislation until this Tuesday.

“I have no problem with charter schools existing; it’s the way the state has decided to fund them,” said Heshan Berents-Weeramuni, cochairman of the school site council at the Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain and a member of Quality Education for Every Student, a grass-roots parent organization heading the effort. “It’s unfair.”

Controversy has long surrounded the funding of charter schools, public institutions that typically operate independently of local districts and rarely employ unionized teachers.

Hundreds of Boston parents band together to oppose charter school expansion - Metro - The Boston Globe

Again with the funding. It's coming.

 

[DGS49]

Anyone who believes this is "parent-driven" is a fucking idiot.

This is a classic example of "Astroturf." Looks like "grass roots" but there's no actual grass present.

There are very few legitimate reasons to oppose charter schools. The cost per pupil is, by definition, the same as in the conventional public schools, and attendance is ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY. They CAN provide educational opportunities not available in any public school, and allow students to legally abandon failing or grossly deficient neighborhood schools.

But the teachers are generally non-union, which drives the teachers' unions bonkers.

There ain't no grass here. It's totally fueled by the Massachusetts teachers' unions and their propaganda campaign.

 

[Disir]

It's the funding. Make no mistake.

 

[Iceweasel]

^^^^^yep. To the union thugs competition is unfair.

 

[Disir]

Follow the money. Do it now or watch it all go up in smoke.

 

[DriftingSand]

I like the idea that parents have options where education is concerned. Public school standards have become so atrocious that many parents are desperate to find schools that offer structure and a higher level of education. Today's public schools have drastically lowered the standards in an effort to make the kids with low IQs and poor learning skills "FEEL" good about themselves. That idiotic method of "teaching" is bad for everyone including the stupid kids.

 

[driveby]

The OP doesn't know the difference between parents and teachers unions.......

 

[Disir]

I know the difference. But, you don't.

 

[DriftingSand]

I know the difference. But, you don't.

"My dad's bigger than your dad."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah"

"Well you're a poop head."

 

[Disir]

I know the difference. But, you don't.

"My dad's bigger than your dad."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah"

"Well you're a poop head."

And you're a doody-head.

Any chance you planning on following the money or are you going to hang on to a dream and pretend?

 

[driveby]

I know the difference. But, you don't.

Seriously, does Pee Wee Herman write your material? ......

 

[Disir]

I know the difference. But, you don't.

Seriously, does Pee Wee Herman write your material? ......

http://www.usmessageboard.com/educa...in-education-funding-lawsuit.html#post8749126

http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/341618-taxpayers-left-holding-bill-for-charter-schools.html

http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us/Department/Press/CyberCharterSpecialReport201206.pdf

Srsly? Anytime your ready.

 

[driveby]

I know the difference. But, you don't.

Seriously, does Pee Wee Herman write your material? ......

http://www.usmessageboard.com/educa...in-education-funding-lawsuit.html#post8749126

http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/341618-taxpayers-left-holding-bill-for-charter-schools.html

http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us/Department/Press/CyberCharterSpecialReport201206.pdf

Srsly? Anytime your ready.

omgthreelinksandnotonefuckingclue...........

 

[Disir]

Seriously, does Pee Wee Herman write your material? ......

http://www.usmessageboard.com/educa...in-education-funding-lawsuit.html#post8749126

http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/341618-taxpayers-left-holding-bill-for-charter-schools.html

http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us/Department/Press/CyberCharterSpecialReport201206.pdf

Srsly? Anytime your ready.

omgthreelinksandnotonefuckingclue...........

Again. It's the funding. You can bullshit some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Failure to pay attention now will cost you in the long run. So, you can stand there and slap your hillbilly knee all day long. Doesn't bother me a bit.

 

[driveby]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/educa...in-education-funding-lawsuit.html#post8749126

http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/341618-taxpayers-left-holding-bill-for-charter-schools.html

http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us/Department/Press/CyberCharterSpecialReport201206.pdf

Srsly? Anytime your ready.

omgthreelinksandnotonefuckingclue...........

Again. It's the funding. You can bullshit some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Failure to pay attention now will cost you in the long run. So, you can stand there and slap your hillbilly knee all day long. Doesn't bother me a bit.

Liberals hate choice and competition, except when they're lying about it in their talking points regarding obammycare......

 

[Disir]

omgthreelinksandnotonefuckingclue...........

Again. It's the funding. You can bullshit some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Failure to pay attention now will cost you in the long run. So, you can stand there and slap your hillbilly knee all day long. Doesn't bother me a bit.

Liberals hate choice and competition, except when they're lying about it in their talking points regarding obammycare......

So, again you have nothing. Noted.

You guys should be all over the obvious funding issues, corporate tactics and serious flaws to make sure that what you have really is good. Instead you would rather close your eyes and live in a nonexistent utopia with some feel good slogan crap and smart things like allowing tax dollars to go for adverts. Your call. There will be no crying when it's done.

 

[Unkotare]

2000 signatures is not a lot.