Instead, she says, reform is robbing the regular public schools of resources and intellectual strength.
This is a school district that deliberately starves its few good schools of resources in case they "suck talent" from the rest, and that cannot get rid of poor teachers even if it wants to.
Critics note that these institutions also strip traditional public schools of resources.
Another student described how the DOE's budget cuts stripped his Bronx school of resources such as textbooks, librarians and school aides -- and then added it to the city's list of failing schools.
Respondents who expressed seeing racial inequities in schools said they blame schools' lack of resources and lower teacher quality.
Overall, however, the city's public schools are in a sorry state: 51,000 out of 240,000 elementary-school pupils did not meet state reading standards in 2013.Some will always argue that charters cream off the brighter children and leave sink schools, deprived of resources, behind.
Opponents of private school choice say it drains public school systems of resources. .
Mrs. Clinton has sided with the teacher unions in vehemently opposing vouchers, saying they would strip the public schools of precious resources.
On vouchers, Mrs. Clinton has sided with the teachers' unions in vehemently opposing vouchers, saying they would strip the public schools of precious resources.
The university includes the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; colleges of agricultural and environmental sciences, business, education, environmental design, family and consumer sciences, journalism and mass communications, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine; and schools of forest resources, law, and social work.
If you truly cared, you would look at the deteriorating conditions in schools across this country and aim your fire at politicians who have starved our schools of the resources to succeed and then punished them for their failures".
