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Pankovits and Nathan on Medium: Walz’s Even-Handed Approach to Chartering

  • November 1, 2024
  • Tressa Pankovits

By Tressa Pankovits and Joe Nathan

By this stage of the election, it’s difficult to find something to write about the candidates for president and vice president that hasn’t been repeated dozens of times, but here’s one. 

Conventional wisdom has it that because Kamala Harris and her running mate have courted the teachers unions, they believe that charter schools are the enemy. Maybe there’s hope that they don’t. 

Harris picked Governor Tim Walz even though during the pandemic he listened to the pleas of charter school students with a serious problem The story that hasn’t gotten national attention, but as Harris and Walz seek to rally the youth vote in the final days of the campaign, the campaign should amplify Walz’s willingness to listen to a bunch of teenagers and act on their concerns. 

Continue reading on Medium.

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