Friday, February 26, 2021
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An opinion piece written by two Rhode Island State Senators Sandra Cano and Ana Quezada was sent out by the press office at the Rhode Island General Assembly on Thursday to try and justify their efforts to cancel over 5,500 seats at charter schools for this coming year and block future charter school expansion.
The title of the column is “Charter school expansion would leave most children behind” – you can read their claims below, but what we did was pull a few of their points and offer some reality to their specious claims.
Cano and Quezada: The moratorium on charter school expansion recently approved by the Rhode Island Senate is neither anti-education nor anti-charter school. Rather, it is about saving traditional public schools, thereby ensuring every child in our state has a fighting chance at a quality education before it’s too late.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST