Aaron Palace News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Not go too far into the anti-charter movement. charter schools are not private schools. they are public schools. the highly effective ones, about one-fifth of all charter schools, are killing it. they are doing a great job graduating over 90% of their kids, getting them all the way through college. and so what we need to do in resisting betsy devos is to say, look, if you want to try to supplement good charter schools, fine. but the rest of the privatization agenda, no way. >> aaron, i once was on the board of a charter school. i've seen the way they work and was not impressed with some of wha...

De-professionalize education. joining me is aaron palace of teacher's college and political analyst, jonathan altar and charles pierce. first to you, aaron. thank you and welcome to the show. you recently wrote an op-ed piece on november 25th, you wrote, "as traditional public schools wither, more families are driven to the private sector. it makes teaching less attractive and teachers leave the field in droves." if you can just summarize the dangers of diverting money to charter schools. >> traditional districts have lost a lot of their base funding as money has moved to the charter schools a...