Wherever traditional public schools are faltering or failing, private school and alternative public-school options have become enormously popular. Those whose livelihoods depend on public education now regard stifling such competition as crucial to their economic and class survival, and Democratic politicians who crave their votes are doing their best to help.
The most visible instance of that help, in New Hampshire, came earlier this year, when the Democratic majority on the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee refused the first installment of a $46 million grant for charter schools. Rather than dispelling the partisan, pro-teachers’-union nature of that decision, Steve Woodcock’s confusing and unconvincing column of Aug. 28 only made it more obvious.
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