This is a false framing — talking about “blame” instead of support is right out of the George Bush NCLB playbook. Talking about “destruction” instead of whole-child learning or full funding is a scam that shows why the very rich pay so much for slick writers.

Comparing the research compiled by educators, child development experts and US parents to that of charter PACs and other PR experts with no education experience, we see right through.

But money trumps the will of the people — the 16 year history of billionaire backed ed reform is laid bare, a cynical ploy to help disadvantaged students by privatizing the public schools that are the bedrock of democracy.

If we fund all public ed students equally within each state, performance improves. Charters segregate by parental involvement which increase achievement gaps. It’s like a bridge builder telling a city to stop maintaining all its bridges to build a new bridge — except schools are more important than bridges.

CHARTER MISSION: Finally, charters were created to bring innovative improvements to scale and have not. Large scale charterization in NOLA and Michigan show the ideas don’t scale. They do best in NY where they are under 4% because they cherrypick. So why bother with the idea anymore? Improve 100% of public schools all at once or what’s the point, 15 years is a lot of experimentation. At least go back to the law that states the purpose of charters-specializing on at risk kids.