[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: good morning and welcome to fox & friends. man alive, i say it every saturday, sunday, but your photos are phenomenal. they really are original, they really are for you. they land in our inbox, friends@foxnews.com, and we, we don t, although that last one had a picture of us and a fireplace. they mix it together with our nation s anthem, and it s magic. rachel: you ve been asking for this pete: i ve been asking for a coffee table book for years. i mean, you re welcome for the idea right here. a ray you re welcome, i agree. president.good to see you with, rachel. rachel: good to be back. i had a really nice time with my if family yesterday celebrating pete: what? rachel: the feast of the e epiphany, january 6th. not insurrection day will: the 12th day of christmas? rachel: it is. pete: did you give a gift every single day rachel: no, our kids get gifts from santa cla
thinking it would be routine or a day, and then there were complications. and then he kept the lid on it, kept the lid on it, kept the lid on it. complications are the time when you inform people, hey, it was supposed to be 24 hours, now it s going to be a week, and they didn t. which just leads to more speculation. now if we deserve to know precisely what it was. all right. well, or here s another story that is a sign of our times because whether it was covid or the revelations of what s happening inside schools, factors are choosing something parents are choosing something other than government schools and are flocking to charter schools, home schools, other alternatives. here s a report. it s from the sea data obtained by the national alliance for public charter schools. over the a last four years, charter schoolen rollment s gone up to 300,000 while attendance can at public schools has dropped by a million and a half. which i think is great news. rachel: it s fantastic nudes. on
his friendship with the child sex trafficker? well,. is there a lesson for you, for anyone else looking at this? well, he s dead, so, you know, in general, you always have to be careful pete: he s dead. it s in the past. nothing to see here just forget about it. we will bring you any updates on the story as they come. well, it turns out a lot of parents across the country are fed up with the public education system which we should call the government school system. so much so that they re pulling their kids out of public schools by the truck loads. and instead turning to private schools, christian schools, charter schools and home schooling. according to an analysis on the national alliance for public charter schools, during the 2020, 2021 school year, charter school enrollment grew 7%.
it has been one more thing we must overcome to produce educated children. but there is no they alternativ. you cannot make it in today s workplace without an education. and we cannot make it as a country without an educated citizenry. so, yes, the pandemic is an obstacle. but there are so many among us that have overcome other obstacles to embrace the life-changing power of education. parents are are exploring all of their options to make sure their children can stay on track even in the midst of a health crisis. if for some, that is still public school. but for others, the way around mandates and teachers unions includes charter schools and private schools. joining me now to continue our ongoing conversations about education in america is the ceo of the national alliance for
president and ceo of the national alliance for public charter schools. welcome. good to see you. thanks for having h having m. paul: the charter school movement started as a bipartisan movement. democrats supported it. barack obama pouterre supported. what happened to turn so many democrats against it? the simple answer is the teachers unions are more powerful than ever before when it comes to democrat party politics. over the years, as the reach of charter schools has expanded in certain communities, the unions have discovered that because our teachers are not unionized, that they have a fewer share of the market than they had before so increasingly they re flexing their muscles. in 2016 alone, the national education association spent over $30 million on federal elections. so to the extent the democrats are vying for the support of the