Comment by ksdale

I think this cuts both ways quite a lot more than the author admits. Bill Gates may not represent "the will of the people" but he also doesn't stand to benefit nearly as much from "winning" as say, teacher's unions. I'm not nearly informed enough to have an opinion on the issue of charter schools, but these horrible billionaires seem to be acting in good faith to improve educational outcomes for everyone and that doesn't seem like that bad of a thing to me... It's probably true that people will open up charter schools for the sole purpose of making money and they will run some crappy schools, but it seems disingenuous to speak as though the public school side doesn't have an interest beyond protecting the children.