Here’s a great column from New Bedford School Committee member Josh Amaral, which appeared in South Coast Today:
In New Bedford, the charter assessment is over $10 million. For that money, local charters educate about 900 students. If you put those 900 students back into New Bedford Public Schools, which are open, heated, and staffed anyway, hired more staff and bought more supplies for the new students, it would only cost about $3 million to provide those students with an education that is every bit as good, and often even better. Imagine what we could do with the other $7 million. Why should we expand a costly and inefficient charter system?…