Juan Williams: Hillary betrays charter schools

Juan Williams attacks Hillary Clinton:

Until her recent endorsements from teachers’ unions, Clinton was a supporter of school choice. In her books and speeches, she spoke about the need to improve public school education with a special focus on helping minority and low-income children.

But in exchange for winning the endorsements of the two big teachers’ unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, Clinton has become an opponent of the choice and innovation provided by charter schools.

Here is her explanation for this incredible act of political expediency:

“Most charter schools – I don’t want to say every one – but most charter schools, they don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them,” Mrs. Clinton said at an event hosted by the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.

She added that unlike charter schools, the neighborhood public schools with teachers who are union members “thankfully take everybody and then they don’t get the resources or the help and support that they need to be able to take care of every child’s education.”

That statement is not true and even worse it sounds like a script written by the teachers’ unions.

Hillary Clinton (Democrat-Teachers Unions).