The Tension Between Charter Schools and Voucher Programs

Do you think the rhetoric of providing opportunity to a few has distracted us from trying to really build quality public education K through 12? What's your view on that? I think it's a hard problem. It comes up for example with the selective tracking kind of gifted and talented kind of what people are saying. Even if charter is providing better services to the kids who are lucky enough to get access to it it might end up diverting resources away from the system, he says.