The elephants in the public-school room

Mayoral candidate Kevin McCrea agrees with his opponents that charter schools can be A Good Thing. But they're not enough, he writes:

... The two elephants in the room are busing and failing schools. Raising the cap on charters only slightly addresses getting more kids out of the regular schools and into better charter schools. In addition, there is no guarantee that the kids who need it most will get into those charter schools, instead it could be that many of these favored seats will go to favored people. ...