turning public schools into anarchy, wanting quick solutions and having the same problems of accountability of too little money and the same societal problems inside and outside of schools, as well as they don't have any experience and/or academic experience with education.

I can see charter schools taking advantage of a group of parents who are vulnerable, not savvy, and at a disadvantage not knowing all the alternatives once they've had their coupe.

do they think that charters and voucher fed schools will produce thinking, responsible citizens who vote for democrats? or will they produce a bunch of little elitists who think they are special and others are expendable?
dems should not cut the throats of those who have traditionally supported them.

I spent more than a decade doing work in NJ schools, especially Newark and other urban schools. I saw up close and personal how established power structures worked to only serve themselves.
With regard to Mr Booker, He would never have been elected without the support of Wall St. The money guys are salivating over the gentrification and selling off public assets to pay off debts that are the result of those self serving grifters. Booker is just another flavor of the same poison.
It pissed me to no end that he was given a forum at the convention.

i have taught in an urban high school for 20+ years and seen plenty that was wrong with schools but anything i saw in the past pales compared to the havoc caused by corporate "reformers" of today.
i have always worked hard but today i work harder. i used to feel appreciated and had fun while exploring the curriculum and bringing it to life with students.
today, all behaviors are monitored and we move through the material to fit the test schedules. no deviation from prescribed topics for fear of getting behind. i can never feel like i did a good job because i can't accomplish the things in am expected to do.
i really looked forward to a sane president rolling back NCLB but that is not what happened.
10 years of that usurper bush making my work life miserable and then my own party turns on me and my fellow teachers.
sorry about the rant. i've too much to do to be sitting here reading and writing.