Playing Political Football with Kids’ Lives

April 11, 2013 | By Parker Baxter | @Parker_Baxter | Categorized: Uncategorized

April 11, 2013 | By Parker Baxter | @Parker_Baxter | Categorized: Uncategorized

NACSA’s president and CEO, Greg Richmond, has a op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times arguing that charter schools are being used in Chicago’s “school wars” in ways that only serve adult interests and harm kids.

While the schools themselves focus on their students, the rhetoric of charter schools has become a political football, used by politicians of every stripe for self-serving purposes.

Check out the whole piece here.

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