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JWeinCom on 26 February 2017
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Mr Puggsly said:
JWeinCom said:

So far, school choice hasn't done those things.  

School choice, in the form of charter schools, has been rife with abuse.  The oversight has simply not been there, and competition hasn't done anything to help.  Competition between schools, whether public, charter, or private, has mostly served as motivation to fudge numbers and to eliminate the lowest performers.  

School choice hasn't had a chance to thrive yet so lets not pretend competition truly exist. School unions have been at war with charter schools and hindered their progress.

Public schools often like to ignore test scores but national tests show which are doing a poor job. Either way the direction Trump seems to be moving things can't be worse. We keep spending more on K-12 eductation with no results.

Hmmmm... so even when charter schools fail, that's the public school's fault.

There's well over 1000 charter schools.  We have enough of a sample to make a judgment.  As the laws currently are, they are not an effective solution.  The Trump administration has not made any proposals that would change things.