”We cannot sell the people of Kentucky a mule and call it a horse, even if we believe the public needs a mule,” she wrote. The law labeled charter schools as part of the state’s public education system but exempted them from many statutes and regulations governing traditional local school districts. Keller wrote that the “public” label on those schools was something of a misnomer.”
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