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President and ceo of the national alliance for public charter schools. welcome. good to see you. >> thanks for having h having m. paul: the charter school movement started as a bipartisan movement. democrats supported it. barack obama pouterre supported. what happened to turn so many democrats against it? >> the simple answer is the teachers' unions are more powerful than ever before when it comes to democrat party politics. over the years, as the reach of charter schools has expanded in certain communities, the unions have discovered that because our teachers are not unionized, that they have...

Paul: nina reece is the president and ceo of the national alliance for public charter schools. welcome. good to see you. >> thanks for having h having m. paul: the charter school movement started as a bipartisan movement. democrats supported it. barack obama pouterre supported. what happened to turn so many democrats against it? >> the simple answer is the teachers' unions are more powerful than ever before when it comes to democrat party politics. over the years, as the reach of charter schools has expanded in certain communities, the unions have discovered that because our teachers are not u...

Anybody in their right minds things we should start segregating students -- >> the whole notion that being underfunded is connected to the quality of education has been debunked. in new jersey you have the highest level of per-student payment in any state in the nation, i believe, and the more we allocate -- >> they're also taking teachers out of the public school pipeline and giving them signing bonuses and taking highly qualified teachers -- >> the charter school movement is -- ithe charter school movement. >> how now become bad things. now pulling away from the teach are pool, and those kid...

American education. >> andrew, the movie focuses on the so-called parent trigger laws which allows parents to sign a petition to essentially take over the school and make dramatic changes if it's failing. that sounds like empowering parents. that doesn't sound like a bad thing. i would say that the notion of allowing parents to take control of a school and have more control over the child's education, doesn't also seem like a fundamentally conservative idea to me. >> it isn't necessarily i suppose a fundamentally conservative idea, the charter school movement and parent trigger law only invoke...