Warren is placing the entire responsibility for improving a public service on the shoulders of low-income parents, while supporting laws to deny them better options. jonathanchait writes
Senator Elizabeth Warren Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images The National Education Association, the most implacably anti-reform of the two major national teachers’ unions, has released a series of candidate interviews. Senator Elizabeth Warren, making her case for NEA support, notes her role in opposing a 2016 ballot initiative to expand charter schools in Boston.
It is inconvenient for Warren that she happens to represent a state with the most effective charter sector in the country, given the fact that she’s running for president and one of the most influential interest groups in her party opposes charters everywhere. Even more inconveniently, Massachusetts had a ballot initiative in 2016 to lift the cap on charter attendance in Boston schools. This spurred Warren, who had previously supported charter schools, to reverse herself.
But what about the low-income parents who wanted better schools for their children? Here is where Warren’s answer goes from obtuse to almost cruel: The answer to parents who want to allow more high-quality public schools is that they should fix the existing schools themselves?
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