Charter schools were originally intended to provide a space for educators to be more flexible and innovative, but with the advent of corporate charter schools, that intention has been corrupted.
Now, billionaires have turned corporate charter schools into money-making schemes to benefit themselves, not students. They are using taxpayer dollars to expand and bolster their bank accounts, without oversight or demonstrating any overall increase in student learning and growth.
Schools that receive public funds should be held to the same excellence, equity, and transparency standards as public schools, but these for-profit schools are dodging those standards and displacing funds from district-run public schools that need them most.
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing an end to the federal support of corporate charter schools, but we know that powerful billionaires will use their considerable resources to fight against this positive step. We need our voices to be louder.
The Department of Education wants to hear from you. So please take a few minutes to tell them why you support ending this unfair use of taxpayer dollars–your dollars–to line the pockets of billionaires who seek to undermine public education.
