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...ridiculous hypotheticals, and it's hard to scrunch your six-foot-five frame into a coach seat knowing your opponent is stretched out on a soft mattress on Air Force Two, but who said campaigning was a rose garden? One night when the oven wasn't working on his charter plane, Bradley lost his usual composure. When Gore heard about it, he put a white napkin over his arm and served the press dinner on his flight. You've arrived at a very bad pass when Gore comes across as the warm and playful...
Both sides in the debate over school choice will find plenty to argue about in the case of Kansas City, Mo. The K.C. board of education voted Tuesday to close four of its failing public schools - a casualty of the success of charter schools, which have diverted valuable resources from the city's public schools. Since Missouri instituted charter schools in 1999, roughly 4,300 students have enrolled in them, draining an estimated $18 million in state and local funding out of the Kansas City school system, and the district fears that sum could swell to $31 million if newly...
...This is believed to be the first time charter schools have been responsible for public school closings. Those in favor of charters say the closings prove that they work - that through competition they weed out underperfoming schools. But opponents of school choice argue that the charters cream off the best students - or at least the ones with the most concerned parents - and have left Kansas City's public school system with fewer schools and a higher concentration of poor students...
...This has been the whole desire of the charter school movement, to introduce competition" says TIME writer-reporter Jodie Morse. "If a school is bad, they cut it." Since 1991, 37 states have passed charter laws, which allow local residents to group together and submit charters, or proposals, complete with school philosophies and curricula, for alternative, publicly funded schools that operate outside the public school system, with few regulatory strings attached. Parents then apply for their children to relocate to the schools, where tuition is free. President Clinton has encouraged the trend, and has called for the creation...
Bush's education incentive program focuses on supporting charter schools and school voucher programs. Bush supports starting a $3 billion charter school fund along with tying voucher programs to a nationwide "accountability" system...