Charter schools

There was a minie scandal in the news today regarding a California teachers union head sending his kid to private school. Nation wide 11% of students go to private schools but the stats are quite different for public school teachers. Across the nation 20% of teachers kids go to private schools but the percent is much higher in big cities. For example is 44% in Philadelphia, 41% in Cincinnati, 39% in Chicago and 34 % in San Francisco. 40% of congressmen send their kids to private schools. Knowing the conditions in most big city schools this is understandable but what is not is the fact that the teachers unions opposed charter schools. These schools give people the option to schools of their choice. In St Paul one of the problems with school choice is transportation but a number of St Paul families have car pooled to schools in the suburbs.