One of the depressing features of every political campaign is the way candidates distance themselves from previous positions taken when they felt at liberty to take a risk. And so we note that Hillary Clinton, yet again, has backpedaled into the arms of activists in the Democratic base — this time on education policy.
A longtime — even early — supporter of the charter-school movement, Clinton in South Carolina the other day “sounded less like a decades-long supporter of charter schools,” and “more like a teachers union president” in critiquing them.
She claimed most charter schools .”
The charter school record varies from state to state, and no doubt some schools fit her description. But charters in a number of locales take more of the “hardest-to-teach” kids than regular schools. And anyone here in Colorado who thinks charters habitually boot such students out hasn’t examined the record of charters serving low-income students in Denver — and often doing a better job with them, too.
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