'I've never seen a governor attempting to use charters in such an overtly political way,' one scholar said after Tennessee invited Hillsdale College to open 50 schools in the state.
In Tennessee, charter schools have been concentrated in the state's four largest cities, but Lee envisions"an expansion into suburban and rural areas where, like many Hillsdale charter schools, they would most likely enroll children who are whiter and more affluent thanreported.
Bruce Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, told the newspaper that"I've been following charter schools over the last 25 years, and I've never seen a governor attempting to use charters in such an overtly political way." "You've had governors who've encouraged the growth of charters to provide more high-quality options for parents," said Fuller,"but it's highly unusual to see a governor deploy the charter mechanism for admittedly political purposes."have had explicitly right-wing political aims.
For instance, vouchers—the mid-1950s brainchild of economist Milton Friedman, a chief architect of the neoliberal assault on public goods and unions—gained immediate popularity among segregationists eager to abandon public schools to avoid racial integration.,"school 'choice' was a way station on the route to radical privatization."
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