Edward F. Berger: How to Save Your Community Schools

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1. Karen Wolfe says:

   March 15, 2015 at 11:33 am

   This is beautiful! I re-posted it on my school’s email group.

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2. Susan Lee Schwartz says:

   March 15, 2015 at 12:02 pm

   cross posted his guidelines at
   http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Saving-Community-Schools–in-Best_Web_OpEds-America_Community_Knowledge_Learning-150315-1.html#comment537348

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3. retired teacher says:

   March 15, 2015 at 12:20 pm

   While I think we make several useful suggestions on a populist level, I think there is much more work to be done on a political level. A recurring theme of many posts is “follow the money.” If we do, we find the problem is that our government is promoting the destruction of public education by providing an institutionalized partiality to charter schools. This favoritism is the basis for the attacks; there is money to be made! Two laws that underscore this problem are the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act 2000 and the New Markets Tax Credit. Add to this the subtractability formula for public education with charter school expansion , and we have a recipe for disaster for public schools. If NCLB becomes portable, this will further incentivize the creation of more charter schools. A huge problem in this war is that the government is working against comprehensive education for America’s children! I don’t know how to do this, but we citizens must be the David that takes down the Goliath.

   Here’s a link to these laws on Wikipedia, corporate tax evasion for dummies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Renewal_Tax_Relief_Act_of_2000

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   • Linda says:

     March 15, 2015 at 1:15 pm

     Retired Teacher and Berger, both make points that should have made their way to Democrats for Public Education.

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