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Conservatives Should Embrace Charter Schools

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, February 21 2013

If conservatives are looking for a new way to sell the movement’s opportunity message to more people, embracing charter schools as a civil rights issue is both good policy and good politics. Fed up with a low-performing public school, parents at 24th Street Elementary in Los Angeles decided to replace the administration and teachers, and turn over operations to a private charter school company called Celerity Educational Group. The move was made possible by California’s first-in-the-nation “parent trigger” law, which allows a majority of parents with students…

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