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title: Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have
description: NEWS:Why a moratorium on charters would be harmful to thousands of poor urban children
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# [Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/bernie-sanders-wants-to-destroy-the-best-schools-poor-urban-kids-have)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 05/22/19

Bernie Sanders today is announcing the foundation of his K-12 education plan, which is to [crack down](https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/bernie-sanders-charter-schools-ban/index.html) on public charter schools. If enacted, the Sanders plan would snuff out one of the most successful social policy innovations in decades, and close off a lifeline of opportunity for hundreds of thousands of poor urban children.

The charter-school sector varies enormously from state to state, but on [average](https://urbancharters.stanford.edu/), charter schools yield better outcomes for urban students (though not for other students). States with the worst-regulated systems fare no better than traditional neighborhood schools. But the best-managed charter systems produce dramatically better outcomes for low-income urban children than the same students receive in neighborhood schools.

[Read the full story here](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/bernie-wants-to-destroy-the-best-schools-poor-city-kids-have.html)

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