From: "Mark" 

That's interesting. I guess it's more a factor of being against change in
general, with different players in different geographic regions passing the
baton for maintaining the status quo.

I'm pretty sure the scenario I was describing was presented in the NYTimes,
whose articles get regurgitated nationwide, so I was guilty of painting the
MSM with too wide a brush. 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> In this area ( Detroit ) it's the press/MSM  that are pro charter schools
> and the local politicians that are anti.
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> Lately the organized teaching establishment are starting to mount an
> attack for tougher restrictions on home schooling even though home
> schooled children in Mich score higher on the ACT. The establishment
> should worry about seeing why the home schooled do better than worrying
> about restricting that method
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> http://www.detnews.com/2005/schools/0508/14/A01-280168.htm
> Among 2004 Michigan high school graduates taking the ACT, the average
> homeschool score was 23.1, compared with 21.4 for all Michigan students
> tested
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>>> I've seen non-union charter schools in this are that have worse results
>>> than the unionized public schools.
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>> That *may* be true, but don't forget that there is an incredibly strong
>> opposition to charter schools by the establishment, which includes the
>> MSM, so I'd take those results with a healthy helping of skepticism.
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>> It's actually quite astounding, the level of obfuscation the press uses
>> to make charter schools *appear* to be failing. Statistics are highly
>> maneuverable, as you very well know, if the right wording and limitations
>> on data sets are presented as fact. I recall reading some highly
>> accusatory prose about how only 25% (I'm estimating the numbers from
>> memory) of charter students passed this test or that and playing up the
>> 75% failure rate as proof that charter schools were a bad idea. END.
>> > rate or a 72% failure rate and that the public schools had been around
>> since the industrial revolution, but the charter schools had started only
>> a couple of years prior>
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