This is the talk, both written and video, that Wendy Lecker gave about charter schools at Public Education Nation in Brookyn on October 11. The event was sponsored by the Network for Public Education at the Brooklyn New School. Please read/watch. Lecker was terrific.

“Yesterday” (apologies to Paul McCartney and the Beatles)
Yesterday, all those G-men seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I’ve got half the schools I used to see
There’s a summons hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why they had to raid
And invade, they wouldn’t say
I did nothing wrong
Now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, scam was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why they had to raid
And invade, they wouldn’t say
I did nothing wrong
Now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, scam was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
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Cross-posted at http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Charter-Schools-An-Experi-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Charter-Schools_Education_School_Schools-141024-169.html#comment517201 with this comment: (all the sites have embedded links at the Oped post:
Anerica’s public schools are being systematically destroyed, and the public is being fed lies and propaganda.If You wish the truths about what it really takes for kids to learn, readi The American Educator, where authentic teachers tell how to enable learning. and go to these sites to discover the carefully planned devastation as THE REAL EDUCATORS… explain the horror of what is occurring while the media points to magic elixirs like charter schools.
Diane Ravitch
EdNotes Online
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Curmuducation
NYC Educator
NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR
Mercedes Schneider’s Edu Blog
NYC Educator
NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR
The Assailed Teacher
EdWize UFT
Accountable Talk
MORE Caucus
NYC Eye
Protect Portelos
Hemlock on the Rocks
South Bronx School
Chaz’s School Daze
With a Brooklyn Accent
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Urban Ed
Ed in the Apple
Jose Vilson Blog
Raging Horse Blog
Ed Law FAQs
IMAGINE how hard it is to see the plan in operation in 15,880 in 50 states; it is impossible to know what is happening in the schools next door, let alone in NYC (the largest district in the nation) where they decimated the public schools, and in LA, (the second largest district) where corruption was blatant and rampant in order to monetarize education by Bamboozling the people and selling as “choice’ magic elixirs such as charter schools,
Just go to Perdaily.com, and see how the second largest school district in America was made to fail, through the total incompetence of the corrupted peopleat the top…. it will boggle your mind… and by the way… if you read the posts by this wonderful, erudite writer all your illusions about what happened to public education will be shattered… because here it is as plain as day… they got rid of the veteran educators and reduced th budgets as well as eliminating the voice of the teacher
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Take a look at how charters in Ohio stack up…
http://knowyourcharter.com/
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