Parents rally for charter school funding
Thousands of parents from across the state rallied in Bridgeport Tuesday to demand more funding for charter schools. Close to 3,300 parents, students and teachers from across the state took part in
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Nov 11, 2015, 3:18 AM
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Thousands of parents from across the state rallied in Bridgeport Tuesday to demand more funding for charter schools.
Close to 3,300 parents, students and teachers from across the state took part in the rally, saying that public schools are failing students and that they want more funding for an alternative to it.
Marchers said that alternative is charter schools, and they said it's a matter of giving inner-city kids a fighting chance to succeed in school.
Charter schools are semi-private, which is why Rob Traber, head of the Bridgeport Education Association, does not believe the cries of poverty.
"We have no way of knowing what kind of money they have because they're not publicly accountable," Traber said.
Critics counter that charter schools siphon money away from struggling public schools that need that money.
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