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Americans give charter Schools, performance pay and school choice consistently high marks. "People want immediate opportunities for children that work, regardless of what it is called or if it is outside of what they have grown up to view as traditional public education,” said CER president Jeanne Allen.
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The question, some say, is what "adequate and equitable funding" means. "Charter schools operate with 40 percent less funding than other public schools," said Jonathan Oglesby, director of public relations for the Center for Education Reform (CER), a charter school advocacy group based in Maryland.
Jeanne Allen, the president of the Center for Education Reform in Washington, said Democrats may have an edge on the issue simply because Americans have little to go on in trying to determine how each candidate would proceed on education policy, because the campaign has featured so little discussion of it.
Americans give charter Schools, performance pay and school choice consistently high marks. "People want immediate opportunities for children that work, regardless of what it is called or if it is outside of what they have grown up to view as traditional public education,” said CER president Jeanne Allen.
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