#133 - Are Charter Schools Overrated?

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🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Motion: Charter Schools Are Overrated In the 25 years since Minnesota passed the first charter school law, these publicly funded but privately operated schools have become a highly sought-after alternative to traditional public education, particularly for underserved students in urban areas. Between 2004 and 2014 alone, charter school enrollment increased from less than 1 million to 2.5 million students. Many charter schools boast of high test scores, strict academic expectations, and high graduation rates, and for some, their growth is evidence of their success. But have these schools lived up to their promise? Opponents argue that charters, which are subject to fewer regulations and less oversight, lack accountability, take much-needed resources from public schools, and pick and choose their student body. Are charter schools overrated? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.8	enormously high. That perhaps is why questions about how to educate our children tend to set off
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1:38.7	school segregation, the Pledge of Allegiance, Evolution, Teachers, Unions and the one we are
1:43.3	going to be looking at in this debate, charter schools. Those experiments first launched only
1:49.2	25 years ago that let schools run themselves independently while still spending taxpayer money.
1:55.7	With the dream that such schools would innovate their way to new educational breakthroughs,
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