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mopinko

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6. we have a robust charter system here.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:52 AM
Apr 2025

they get the same per pupil as cps, but they also get money for facilities, where some hinkey things have gone on. afaik, most of the charters r now union.
they r all non-profits, tho some r part of chains. i have 1 of that turkish guy’s schools around the corner from me. award winning school and very, very good neighbors.
a lot of the other 1s r amazing, too. the u of chgo has a charter that is the neighborhood school, takes all comers. they’ve done amazing stuff. ctu has a charter.

they havent hurt cps half as much as the catholic schools. they’re all but gone.

i want to see cps get everything they need. but they’ve failed enough kids over the years, that i dont think they deserve a monopoly. i dont blame anyone for not giving them their kid.
and kids shd b off limits, imho.

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