Teachers unions are baldly lying about charter-school costs -- ...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Charters may be the last best hope to save public education in New York.
50% : Even so, parents are still pulling their kids from regular New York public schools: Enrollment has nosedived over the past few years, with families switching to private schools, home schooling or leaving New York altogether.
46% : Indeed, if it weren't for the state cap on charter schools in the city (which exists strictly to please the unions), there'd be far more of them -- and a mad stampede of families ditching traditional schools for the superior product.
44% : Union front group the Alliance for Quality Education claims charters "siphon off millions" from "public schools."
42% : For starters, public charters are public schools: Tuition is 100% free, and any family can apply for admission (which is 100% by lottery).

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