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Paul K. Ogden's avatar

First, charter schools are public schools. Second, funding for public schools has soared above the inflation rate for like the last 30 years. We are not short-changing K-12 education. Not by a long shot.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

Depends on the state and the district. A few months ago, I was researching what the population of a small rural school would be in a red state (Oklahoma to be exact). One thing led to another, and I was in the state's statistics for funding and what their reading/math scores for HS graduates. And over a 20 year period during which the funding for those schools went into a steep decline, the scores went from an 80+ percentile in reading/math for graduates to the 20s. I suspect that has happened in more than one state. And now we've got politicians in the states in an uproar because the textbooks had mentioned a black mathematics educator in them.

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