group in Colorado seeks to reclaim education

[merrily]

1. Yet, in a hollywood movie, funded by rwingnut, taking back a school

consisted of making it a charter school.

Snark aside, very sincere good wishes to the RAVE caucus. Between the Republicans and the Democrats and all the private money being collected for the "cause" charter schools for decades, it sure has its work cut out for it.

Sadly, so does the City of Boston. That is especially sad to me because Boston, home of the first official pubic school in the US. (I am sure there have been people teaching groups of kids without taking money from them for the teaching since time immemorial. Hence, my use of the term "official.&quot

There was a scandal about John Connolly, one of the many mayoral primary candidates, being backed by big bucks from a charter school favoring organization in California. When it came to light, he promised to stop spending their money in the primary, but I don't know who, if anyone, held him accountable. Moreover, he and Walsh were the primary winners anyway and I don't know if Connolly repeated the promise in the general.

Now Mayor Walsh, however, was also in favor of charter schools. So were all but one or two of the field of about 25 Democratic primary candidates.

I think Boston controls them a bit more than other jurisdictions, though. Or so one of Connolly's campaign workers tried to explain to me over the phone.