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OPINION: Traditional public schools educate 90 percent of America’s kids — let’s not make our educational system more unequal than it is already

Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump say that the solution to persistent inequality in educational opportunity is to provide parents with more choices. They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations. Charter schools are […]