School Choice in Oregon Under Attack!!

By Chana Cox, Ph.D School Choice in. Here in Oregon, Governor Kitzhaber and the current democratically controlled state legislature have launched a similar campaign to close and charter schools in Oregon. Taken together House Bill 4127 and Senate Bill 1538 will effectively eliminate school choice in this state except for those parents who are wealthy enough to afford private schools. In Oregon Under Attack! Over the last decade New York City has become the home of some spectacularly successful inner city publicly funded charter schools. School administrators like Geoffrey Canada and Eva Moskowitz, public inner city charter schools Success Academies, Harlem Childrens’ Zone, and the KIPP schools graduate over 90% of their students almost all of whom go on to college. These schools admit by lottery and there are tens of thousands of New York children on waiting lists. Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York teachers unions have launched a campaign to destroy these charters. It is noteworthy that Senate Bill 1538 was drafted by the Portland Public School District which has consistently erected barriers to school choice in Portland.
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