Not a single supporter of Migden's bill asked whether California's current charter law, amended last year, had been good for students. Politics, not the welfare of children, proved uppermost on their mind. The bill passed committee with 10 votes. Wildman is right, and that is precisely the problem. As Gov. Davis admits, the regular educational process is the one that is failing the state's children.
Charter schools represent a revolt against that record.
The counterrevolutionaries of a failed establishment are marshaling raw political power to quash this movement. If they succeed, the state's children will again be the losers.