DC Chartered Public Schools Candidates Statement

DC Association of Chartered Public Schools
Please share with us a 100-word statement from you to parents about DC Chartered Public Schools. We will make the responses of all candidates for DC Council in 2008 available to parents, city-wide.

(Submitted August 6, 2008):

I share every parent’s desire to get the best education for his or her child. Charter school enrollment has grown because of substandard public schools. But I respectfully submit that charter schools undermine public education. Why close neighborhood schools and give first rights to replacing them with charter schools? Partial/full privatization of public schools is the corporate agenda, profit first, accountability last. DC taxes should go to fully accountable public education. Making DC millionaires pay their fair share of taxes will help sharply reduce child poverty, the root cause of poor school performance, and create first rate public schools city-wide.

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