Sens. Rand Paul, Lamar Alexander see only positives in charter schools

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U.S. Sens. Rand Paul and Lamar Alexander, leading a one-sided education talk in Nashville on Monday, concluded that the autonomy of charters has advantages traditional schools can’t match as they discussed ways to expand choice and strengthen charter funding.

For Paul, the next step is to push a state law to allow charters in his native Kentucky, where one has regularly died. Both Republican senators, meanwhile, have put their weight behind federal legislation to enable Title I education funding to follow students to schools of their choice.

“When I first heard about charter schools 20 years ago, I said something like ‘Why shouldn’t every public school be a charter school?’” Alexander said at Nashville’s KIPP Academy, site of a roundtable talk Monday stacked with charter school founders, teachers and enthusiastic parents.

“But I still think that: Over a period of time, why shouldn’t every public school be a charter school?”

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130729/NEWS/307290090/Sens-Rand-Paul-Lamar-Alexander-see-only-positives-charter-schools

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1. The only positive in their warped minds is: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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2. yep, getting public money into private hands