Join Alabama's teachers, parents, and education advocates
SAY "NO" TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

Washington bureaucrats are telling us how to run our local schools, demanding that we implement a Chicago-style charter school system. And if we do not, they are threatening to deny Alabama the funds our students need to be successful.

That's wrong.

Charter schools are not the answer for Alabama's children.

Alabama's public schools are among the lowest funded in the nation. But charter schools would require new facilities and add operational and administrative costs, all of which would be taken directly from our already underfunded public schools.

Charter schools don't require all their teachers to be certified professionals, putting our children into the hands of uncertified, potentially unqualified teachers.

And more than 600 of the 5,000 charter schools in the nation have already closed because of corruption, abuse, or failure.

We don't need the president or any Washington bureaucrat telling us what's best for our kids.

SAY "NO" TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.