I wanted to gather my thoughts on Dan Denvir’s post about last week’s conference of education donors in Philly. Dan and I went back and forth on Twitter about it and I think I probably owe him a longer response.

So my irritation at stories like this — stories that tag the charter-school movement as “corporate reform” and paint all reformers as tools of Big Money — has been building for a while. I’m not an expert on urban education, it’s not my beat, but I have written some stories that touch o...