The pathway out of poverty these schools were supposed to provide now looks more like a detour to profit-making.
When people begin a story about how to fix America, they often start with education, and they often start in communities like Liberty City. Liberty City lies to the west of Miami Beach, across the Biscayne Bay and away from the sun-washed beaches and sparkling towers of the "Magic City.”
According to Wikipedia, Liberty City started out as the first public housing project in the American South when President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the construction of the Liberty Square housing development during the Great Depression. Now the area is known as Miami's roughest neighborhood, a place where riots broke out in 1980 after Miami cops beat an unarmed black man to death.
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These corrupted politicians made millions of dollars from the charter school programs while the poor and low middle class kids received a terrible education. Maybe a third of these kids won't qualified for college.
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