Jason Kenney has been on a big PR blitz for charter schools after allocating nearly $75 million to them in the last budget. But what are they? And why do conservatives love them so much? Wing Li from SOS Alberta joins us to discuss how charter school advocates in Alberta are copying a playbook developed in the US to destroy public education. 

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Links:

• The far right’s national plan for schools: Plant charters, defund public education
• Support Our Students Calls for End of Charter School Experiment: Pick a Lane As Fully Public or Private
• UCP rhetoric around charter schools