The Failure of Charter Schools

Lambert at Corrente posts about the failure (economic and otherwise) of California's largest charter school system.

Now, it's not the first charter school failure, by any means, as much as Republicans (primarily) want to promote the idea of private education over public. They've tried to ruin public education as much as possible by promoting the No Child Left Behind in Public Schools initiative and vouchers, killing educational funds, and making it harder and harder for public schools to continue.

Think about Brown Vs. the Board of Education, and realize that every child today - or more specifically, every child who is not born to parents who can afford good private schools - faces being ousted from the educational system under Bush and his pals. This is most frightening. Educating our kids is truly one of the best investments we can make, and I'd much rather teach a kid to read, write, and reason than how to shoot an uzi.