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Old 12-18-2008, 11:17 AM   #11
nuu faaola
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[QUOTE=asuusa;2917935]What's his view on vouchers? That's the only way our public schools will make any headway! Force them to compete for students just like colleges do![/QUOTE]

He's ok with charters but not vouchers, or at least that's what he did in Chicago.

But, honestly, his approach was basically to experiment with a lot of different things. (One cool thing was letting corporations "adopt" themed charter schools. One was taken over by the investment firm Ariel Capital, which gave the school a math/finance focus. Ariel gave it money and volunteers. Scores went up. Very novel program. There was a lot of private sector interaction like that with the school system, and most of it seemed to work.)
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