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Question of the Day By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Thursday, May 13, 2021
Charter schools have been praised as some of the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic, but don’t expect them to win any awards from Democratic governors or the Biden administration.
The publicly funded independent schools, which marked their 30th anniversary during National Charter Schools Week, face an increasingly hostile political climate as previously friendly Democrats line up with teachers’ unions calling for more accountability and less funding.
Ironically, the pivot on the left comes with charter schools enjoying an unprecedented surge in popularity over their ability to react nimbly and reopen safely during the pandemic, even without many of the must-haves demands by teachers’ unions.