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What taxpayers should know about the cost of school choice - By Valerie Strauss

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"Choice supporters don't much like to talk about thiS --  the waste, fraud, and abuse that is embedded in the school choice movement, AND THAT  every dollar that goes to a charter or a voucher is subtracted from the community public schools A Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family-run K-12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.If, as DeVos says, regulations are the problem, and deregulation the solution, why don’t the “choicers” push to deregulate public schools? Shouldn’t their creativity be unleashed as well?"Diane Ravitch say s "Time to Wise up!"


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