The Connection Between Jeb Bush, ALEC, K12, and Maine

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1. Donna says:

   July 13, 2014 at 9:15 am

   Isn’t this all violative of pay to play laws? Isn’t there an incestuous, anti-trust, RICO lawsuit in here somewhere? No one with power of law behind him/her has the balls to expose all of this corruption and back-door dealing, it appears. Worst of all, Obama and Duncan think its all great.

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2. Margaret M. Nolan says:

   July 13, 2014 at 9:32 am

   Check out the website of National Alliance of Charter Public Schools.org Their Board of Directors and list of funders is a rogues’ gallery of anti-public-schools politicians and corporations. As this network expands its power, a de facto apartheid system of schooling will increase. What a way to make the general public-school population see themselves as second-class citizens.

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3. Chiara says:

   July 13, 2014 at 9:34 am

   “Levesque replied not to worry; her staff in Florida would be happy to suggest policies, write laws and gubernatorial decrees, and develop strategies to ensure they were implemented.”

   Relinquishment! Why should Maine lawmakers do their jobs when they have an operative in Florida willing to do their jobs for them! No wonder politicians love ed reform. They can take public education completely off their list of responsibilities.

   Lawmakers know they’re making themselves completely irrelevant, right? They’re outsourcing their own jobs. Is there some reason we’re keeping them around? Looks to me like this “foundation” is writing all the law.

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4. onewomansjournal says:

   July 13, 2014 at 10:20 am

   Reblogged this on onewomansjournal and commented:
   Follow the $$$$$.

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5. Steve K says:

   July 13, 2014 at 11:07 am

   I should probably copy and paste this comment repeatedly but you’d all get bored.

   As we all know, this is even further evidence of what educational reform is really about: It’s about WHO gets the money. There’s all of this public school money to be had. Who gets it? Teachers? Support staff? Administrators? Investors?

   If you read that entire article it’s all about opening up LEGISLATED business opportunities. There was no discussion of whether it works. No discussion about its quality.

   Read the 10 Elements from the article. Nothing in there about student achievement or outcomes. At first, charters and virtual were about choice. But now that they’ve been exposed as being nearly indistinguishable from good old public schools, it’s become about who gets the cash.

   This isn’t education reform. It’s about creating markets and damn the results. And just remember, when it’s all privatized, they’ll be able to turn students away when they feel like it. College admissions systems will simply become the norm for K-12. The have-nots will have even less chance than they do now. It will be impersonal and corporate.

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   • Sad Teacher says:

     July 14, 2014 at 11:04 am

     Steve, Your post hit it right on the mark! It’s all about WHO GETS THE MONEY. Our world is in bad shape, and honestly, I couldn’t cope with it on a daily basis unless I was a Christian. Education is the last thing they can get their hands on, make tons of money on it, and ruin it for good. Everything else has gone to China. The have-nots status is moving deep into the middle class. My husband and I are professional people who have worked very hard in our lifetimes, and we are strapped in getting our gifted daughter through college to get her bachelor’s degree in Premed – even with many scholarships. She is 2nd generation college, and we are struggling to pay tuition bills. Even those who get the high interest student loans are immediately paralyzed to get the loans paid back. Our government is making billions of dollars off of the middle class to get our middle class kids a college education. It is a plot to end the middle class as we know it.

     Not only are they going to take the public schools away . . they are already trying to take away a college education from our middle class kids as we speak……The middle class is in a crisis.

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6. Gordon Wilder says:

   July 13, 2014 at 2:39 pm

   Further info on Jeb Bush is found in “The Washington Spectator”, July 1st edition. I believe there is a similar article in one of my magazines which includes all the names in this blog but cannot find it quickly.
   Government of, by, and for the corporations way too often.

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7. Sad Teacher says:

   July 14, 2014 at 11:08 am

   Jeb Bush is a silly man. Our country could never survive a 3rd Bush in the Presidential office. Honestly, I can’t even think about it. Great posts on this blog! Thank you so much for helping me cope with a profession gone bad. It is all so sad.

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