Hillary News & Views 11.9: Public vs. Charter Schools, Roland Martin, SC Equality Dinner

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For those interested is Hillary's policies--please read:

Hillary Clinton: Most charter schools ‘don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them’

By Valerie Strauss November 8 at 9:26 AM
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Hillary News & Views 11.9: Public vs. Charter Schools, Roland Martin, SC Equality Dinner
By Lysis


Monday Nov 09, 2015 6:10 AM CST



Roland Martin, host of TV One’s “News One Now,” speaks with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton before a town hall meeting on Saturday at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC.

Today’s Hillary News & Views covers a very busy weekend for the presidential candidate.

Her statements on marijuana reclassification have already gotten plenty of coverage, so this entry will focus on some of the other positions and statements that she made over the weekend, starting with her impassioned defense of public schools and her view on what the role of charter schools should be.

Washington Post reports her full remarks:

I have for many years now, about 30 years, supported the idea of charter schools, but not as a substitute for the public schools, but as a supplement for the public schools. And what I have worked on through my work with the Children’s Defense Fund and my work on education in Arkansas and through my time as first lady and senator is to continue to say charter schools can have a purpose, but you know there are good charter schools and there are bad charter schools, just like there are good public schools and bad public schools.

But the original idea, Roland, behind charter schools was to learn what worked and then apply them in the public schools. And here’s a couple of problems. Most charter schools — I don’t want to say every one — but most charter schools, they don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them. And so the public schools are often in a no-win situation, because they do, thankfully, take everybody, and then they don’t get the resources or the help and support that they need to be able to take care of every child’s education.

So I want parents to be able to exercise choice within the public school system — not outside of it — but within it because I am still a firm believer that the public school system is one of the real pillars of our democracy and it is a path for opportunity.

But I am also fully aware that there are a lot of substandard public schools. But part of the reason for that is that policymakers and local politicians will not fund schools in poor areas that take care of poor children to the level that they need to be. And you can get me going on this…. I mean, the corridor of shame right here in South Carolina, you get on there and you can see schools that are literally falling apart. I’ve been in some of those schools. I have seen the terrible physical conditions. That is an outrage. It is a rebuke to who we are as Americans to send any child to a school that you wouldn’t send your own child to.

And so we’ve got a lot of work to do to make sure that public schools serve people, but that doesn’t mean we don’t also provide options within the system so that parents can find what they think might work best for their kid...

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..LOTS MORE EXCERTPS FROM A VARITY OF ISSUE SHE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEKEND...............