WFFaithful
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Student-teacher ratio is something that can be improved with more funding, but you said more funding won't help, only competition.
The pivot-less pivot. Those aren't different arguments at their core, they are different aspects of a single argument.
They are different because one argument, the first, has a causal relationship underlying the justification and the other says a thing is good by it's very nature.
Nationwide, on average, charter schools are funded at 61 percent of their district counterparts, averaging $6,585 per pupil compared to $10,771 per pupil at conventional district public schools. Unlike traditional district schools, most charter schools do not receive funding to cover the cost of securing a facility...
https://edreform.com/2011/09/how-are-charter-schools-funded/
Student-teacher ratio is something that can be improved with more funding, but you said more funding won't help, only competition.
You must have ignored the polling data among Democrats the first time I posted it. Here it is again: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brow...rters-diverge-by-race-as-2020-elections-loom/
New poll results from Democrats for Education Reform, an advocacy organization that supports charter schools, show a stark contrast between the attitudes of white Democrats on one side, and black and Hispanic Democrats, on the other. Among white Democratic voters, 26% expressed favorable opinions toward charters, while 62% had unfavorable opinions. The results were essentially flipped for black (58% favorable, 31% unfavorable) and Hispanic (52% favorable, 30% unfavorable) Democratic voters.
The opposition to charters is confined to white Democrats. What a surprise to hear that the good little white liberals that populate the Myers Park, RJ Reynolds, Broughton and Grimsley PTAs are sold on the public schools that service their expensive neighborhoods (to say nothing of the Biden/Harris clad fleet of Priuses parked in front of Forsyth Country Day and Charlotte Latin). For some reason, the Democrats at less privileged schools don't share their devotion to a system that doesn't work for them nearly as well.
Is your theory that devotion to Trump is leading black and Hispanic Democrats towards charters?