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Clinton and Charters

ROBERT BERGER
Posted 7/25/16

In an address to the National Education Association’s representative assembly on July 5, Hillary Clinton called for a new era of collaboration between traditional public and charter schools, declaring, “We’ve got no time for all of these education wars.”

Her point is well-taken, but it is not a Teachers’-union audience that needs to hear it the most. In 2012 Geoffrey Canada, Mr. “Waiting for Superman” himself and a founding member of the “reform” lobby group StudentsFirstNY, responded to conciliation efforts with an explicit call to war.

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