Romney's Flawed Education Pitch

DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
In its planning, Mitt Romney's recent foray into a west Philadelphia charter school was the kind of well-timed incursion that has made Navy SEALs legendary. He went to that Democratic stronghold to talk about the nation's troubled public schools, the soft underbelly of President Obama's support in urban America.But in its execution, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's visit to the Universal Bluford Charter School was a strategic blunder — the kind GOP candidates often make in black neighborhoods. Romney went there to tout charter schools, which many...

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