Commentary: Charters aren't the issue

Listening to the rhetoric of the teachers unions, one might have thought the teachers' strike in Los Angeles was about charter schools. "When someone says there's no money, why isn't there money?" National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia asked on MSNBC the first day of the strike.

"A big reason is because they've given it away to for-profit charters. If you're in the charter industry, what do you want to do? You want to create horrible public schools ... . The billionaires who are behind