CHARTER SCHOOLS AND VOUCHERS: The case for privatizing public schools is decimated

It is just another way of taking education money from the middle and lower class folks in the US and putting it into the pockets of the wealthiest few.  Vouchers and Charter Schools has little to do with improving education opportunities or giving the less fortunate a better education.

Exhibit A in the sky-is-falling argument is the claim that test scores are plummeting. Ravitch shows that, quite the contrary, scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s report card, have never been higher. (The biggest gains in NAEP scores were recorded before the No Child Left Behind Act, with its fixation on teacher accountability and high-stakes testing, was implemented.) Nor do American students perform as badly as advertised on international exams—in 2011 tests of math and science, only a handful of countries did better. There’s no new dropout problem—students are staying in high school longer, and six-year graduation rates have never been higher.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/science/2013/09/charters_schools_and_vouchers_decimating_the_case_for_privatizing_public.html