Back to episode — Episode 2931 CWSA 08/18/25
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ed, they have TDS. I mean, we have lots of reasons why people are going to vote a different way than Trump’s way. But the way it feels, at least to me, I do not know how it feels to anybody else, but to me, it feels like nobody could get elected with their policies. So what would be the one way you could get elected when you are on the 20 side of all the 80-20 issues? Well, there is only one way I…
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New York Post is reporting that in New York City, the public charter schools are getting much better performance out of their students than the regular schools. Now, I am not sure I could tell you exactly what a public charter school would be or what would be the way you get into it. I am guessing it is funded by taxes that would make it public. And I am guessing that anybody is allowed to go, but probably they have a waiting list and maybe a lottery and maybe some other criteria, but I do not know that. I am just guessing what a public charter school must be. If you know, tell me in the comments. But the report is that in the Bronx, at least in the Bronx, 69 percent of students pass the reading exam in the lower grades 3 through 8. But in the regular school, only 44 percent. A 25-point difference. Now, honestly, if only 69 percent of students passed the reading exam, I would not be bragging about that no matter where they did. That does not sound to me impressive. Only fewer than 70 percent pass the reading. I mean, it would be one thing if it was chemistry or advanced math or something, but this is reading. Close to a third of the students in the best schools cannot pass the reading part of the curriculum. Wow.
But I am going to question the reliability of this data because it seems to point out that these
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public charter schools do better at teaching. But my guess is that the people who go to a public charter school have parents who are making sure that everything works out. If you had to guess, would the parents of the kids who got into the public charter schools be more supportive of good education than the average of everybody else? Probably not even close. I mean, if you are going to go through…
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