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It is fair to have doubts that charter schools will be regulated enough and held accountable by a guy who was largely elected on "getting rid of all that red ta

It is fair to have doubts that charter schools will be regulated enough and held accountable by a guy who was largely elected on "getting rid of all that red tape". http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2014/06/22/michigan-spends-1b-on-charter-schools-but-fails-to-hold/77155074/ http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2014/06/22/mi... When we turn children and education into a commodity, the problem is not going to get better. The system will be turned into a cost center for the country, and we'll get what we deserve per the usual.

yummyfajitas 10y ago
Our last "deregulate all the things" president imposed strong regulation on education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act This regulation was moderately successful, particularly for non-Asian minorities: https://www.nber.org/papers/w15531 https://www.nber.org/papers/w15531 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19345747.2013.878011 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19345747.2013.878... https://www.nber.org/papers/w20511 https://www.nber.org/papers/w20511 https://www.nber.org/papers/w16745 https://www.nber.org/papers/w16745 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-child-left-behind-worked/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-child-left-behind-wo... Our last "regulate all the things" president deregulated education. Unsurprisingly, the sellers of education contributed a lot to his campaign and voted for him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/obama-signs-new-k-12-education-law-that-ends-no-child-left-behind/2015/12/10/c9e58d7c-9f51-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/obama-signs-n... It's pretty clear that over the past 16 years, campaign rhetoric doesn't really reflect what will actually happen.

yummyfajitas 10y ago

Our last "deregulate all the things" president imposed strong regulation on education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act This regulation was moderately successful, particularly for non-Asian minorities: https://www.nber.org/papers/w15531 https://www.nber.org/papers/w15531 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19345747.2013.878011 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19345747.2013.878... https://www.nber.org/papers/w20511 https://www.nber.org/papers/w20511 https://www.nber.org/papers/w16745 https://www.nber.org/papers/w16745 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-child-left-behind-worked/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-child-left-behind-wo... Our last "regulate all the things" president deregulated education. Unsurprisingly, the sellers of education contributed a lot to his campaign and voted for him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/obama-signs-new-k-12-education-law-that-ends-no-child-left-behind/2015/12/10/c9e58d7c-9f51-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/obama-signs-n... It's pretty clear that over the past 16 years, campaign rhetoric doesn't really reflect what will actually happen.