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Kline, Miller Introduce Legislation to Support Quality Charter Schools

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Susan Lee Schwartz
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"The charter schools are making the big money grab. Not content to have the full support of both ALEC and Obama, of hedge fund managers who control billions of dollars, of the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Dell Foundation, the John and Laura Arnold Foundation, and scores more foundations, they now seek additional federal funding. Having seen the havoc that the charter schools wreaked in New York City in the past two weeks, I donĂ ??t see the need for more federal funding when so many philanthropists are pouring millions into charters, and our urban schools are in dire need of help. Instead of pumping more money into the hedge funders hobby, save the public schools of Philadelphia, for example."
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have additional Master' Degrees in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side Middle School, which (more...)
 

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