Researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford, in a study conducted for Policy Analysis for California Education, say the space crunch would limit how many children could transfer to private schools. Opponents say public schools already have a shortage of credentialed teachers, and private school teachers generally earn a third less than their public school counterparts. They don't even have to be college graduates, they argue. Say you're teaching 10 kids in a home. That's not addressed in the initiative.
Draper says such criticism ignores the dismal condition of existing public schools.
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