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title: "Opinion: Stop Being Dogmatic About Public Charter Schools"
description: "NEWS:Cory Booker: \"The promise of better schools some day down the road doesn't do much for children who have to go to schools that fail them today\""
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# [Opinion: Stop Being Dogmatic About Public Charter Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/opinion-stop-being-dogmatic-about-public-charter-schools)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 11/18/19

New York Times: 

About 15 years ago, when I was living in Brick Towers, a high-rise, low-income housing community in Newark’s Central Ward, a neighbor stopped me and told me about how her child’s public school was failing its students, like many others in our area at the time. Desperate, she asked if I knew a way to help get her child into a private school. She knew, as all parents do, that a great education was her child’s primary pathway to a better life.

[Read the full story here. ](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/cory-booker-public-charter-schools.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share)

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