Three years of charter schools in Tacoma, and the fight against them rages on

Conor P. Williams was quoted in The News Tribune about charter schools.

That label has created a crisis of support among progressives. It’s only grown since the election of President Donald Trump and his appointment of charter school fan Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

“Betsy DeVos Loves Charter Schools. That’s Bad for Charter Schools,” was a headline for a recent opinion piece in The New York Times by Conor P. Williams.

Charter schools help children of color from low-income families succeed, said Williams, an education policy researcher with the non-partisan think tank New America. “And yet," he continued, "they’re charter schools. And the more President Trump and his secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, embrace charters, the more suspect they seem to people on the left.”