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| Subject: Democrats keeping charter schools down in exchange for teacher's union cash, top activist says Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:26 pm | |
| As Democrats seeking to unseat President Trump in 2020 call for funding to be diverted from charter schools, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools president Nina Rees accused the party of bowing to teachers' unions in exchange for sizable campaign contributions. "The simple answer is that the teachers’ unions are now more powerful than ever before when it comes to Democrat party politics," she said on the latest edition of "The Journal Editorial Report," which aired Saturday. "The unions have discovered that because our teachers are not unionized, that they have a fewer share of the market than they had before. "So, increasingly, they’re flexing their muscles," Rees continued, noting how they spent tens of millions of dollars during the 2016 election cycle. "So, to the extent these Democrats are vying for the support of the teachers’ unions, they’ve discovered that opposing charter schools is one way to get that support." Rees said most students in charter schools have been from low-income households and refuted the claim that charter schools chose only the best students, leaving the public school system with harder cases.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-teachers-unions-2020-charter-schools
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