San Diego had a bond issue on the ballot. It passed handily.
It appeared to be a great victory for public schools.
But unknown to many, there was a sweet deal tucked into the bond issue.
The district will get $2.8 billion in loans, but $350 million is set aside for charters.
Decisions about how to allocate the money will be made by a committee, this article says, dominated by representatives of the charter industry.
Here is another name to add to the billionaire boys’ club: Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm. This La Jolla billionaire believes that most students in the San Diego schools should eventually be in a charter school. Jacobs gave $80,000 to the campaign for the bond issue in San Diego. He was also one of the biggest contributors to the Obama campaign.
Another true believer in privatization of public education.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Diane, I wanted to post this on one of your posts related to the Common Core, but didn’t find one recent enough. Have you seen these new handbooks? http://thechalkboard.us/products.php
The site doesn’t give any information about the owners/creators of the site other than they are educators with 54+ years of teaching experience. They offer these booklets for K-12 reading. We are being inundated with “helpful” resources to implement the CCSS. Woo Hoo!
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I’d be willing to bet that 27 people with 2 years’ experience each worked on this.
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I certainly hope that if these are for profit charters that the people of San Diego demand that they get their tax money back!!!! Can you imagine raising a bond so an edushyster can line his pockets????
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