Editorial: Why does the L.A. teachers union want to limit the options for poor children?

Editorial: Why does the L.A. teachers union want to limit the options for poor children?

Trotted out is the now-familiar and phony trope about charters “draining” or “siphoning” money from public schools. Charters are public schools. In California, they are operated by nonprofit organizations, and the money they receive is public per-pupil funding that follows students. It is not the district’s money, nor the union’s money; it is the students’ money.