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Diverse Charter Schools

Popular, controversial, and a challenge to run successfully



By Alexander Russo
Attention Bootlicker ALERT!



WINTER 2013 / VOL. 13, NO. 1
In February 2009, newly elected President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Capital City Public Charter School in northwest Washington, D.C. They were greeted at the front entrance of the school by 5th-grade students and given a brief tour before taking a seat in the library to read The Moon Over Star to a group of 2nd graders.
This was the First Family’s first official public-school visit, just a few short weeks after President Obama was sworn into office. Obama’s enthusiastic support for charter schools was one of the things that set him apart from his Democratic predecessors and marked him as a “pro-reform” Democrat.
Even accounting for the usual political exaggeration, the president seemed