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A comment on Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in New Orleans.

Re:Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in ... by adron on Thursday July 08, 2010 @12:47PM (#1497906)
Now if this can just be replicated in more places, we may get a better school system. I'd bet though, that the teacher's union is the greatest opponent to this type of thing.
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Re:Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in ... by uuilly on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:36PM (#1498080)
The teachers unions hate school choice. They managed to kill the program in DC even though parents were really happy with the results.
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Re:Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in ... by Adam503 on Friday July 09, 2010 @07:29AM (#1500335)
Teachers unions hate segregated schools.

"School choice" is just the latest mask the right spin doctors have cooked up to dress up school segregation in.

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Re:Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in ... by uuilly on Friday July 09, 2010 @10:58PM (#1502926)
It's mostly minorities demanding, and benefiting from School Choice. If it's segregation, it has a funny way of showing it.
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