Over 100 international organizations signed a statement critical of privatization of education in Kenya and Uganda. They specifically criticized the World Bank for endorsing a for-profit chain of schools called Bridge International Academies. According to the statement released today, “BIA is backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidiyar, and multinational publishing company Pearson, among others. It operates in Kenya and Uganda, with plans to invest in Nigeria, India and other countries. It now has close to 120,000 pupils enrolled in more than 400 schools.” The endorsers of the statement believe these countries need free public education with qualified teachers, not for-profit schools with untrained teachers.
The press release, with links, reads as follows:
Over 100 organisations around the world express deep concerns about the World Bank support for privatisation in education
Press release – 14 May 2015
(Nairobi, Kampala, Washington DC, Brussels)
Today, more than one hundred national and international organisations across the world released a joint open statement addressed to the president of the World Bank, Jim Kim. The statement expresses their deep concerns about the World Bank’s expressed support for the development of a multinational chain of low-fee profit-making private primary schools targeting poor families in Kenya and Uganda, Bridge International Academies (BIA). It comes as a response to a recent speech of the president of the World Bank, Jim Kim, who praised BIA as a means to alleviate poverty.
With signatories including community-based, national, and international organisations, as well as networks and trade unions representing thousands of organisations and millions of individuals in five continents, the statement reflects a growing global movement questioning policies in support for private education in developing countries, including from the World Bank. The statement was written and signed by 30 organisations in Uganda and Kenya, which are the countries primarily affected by the World Bank policy, and received the additional support of 116 organisations.
BIA uses highly standardised teaching methods, untrained low-paid teachers, and aggressive marketing strategies to target poor households, building on their aspiration to a better life to sell them its services.
According to a resident of Mathare, one of the oldest informal settlements in Nairobi, where BIA operates:
“Bridge, they come here, but they don’t understand how things work. They don’t work with other schools, with the community. They just come from door to door to sell their product.”
Nevertheless, the World Bank has invested 10 million dollars in BIA, while on the other hand it has no active or planned investments in either Kenya or Uganda’s public basic education systems.
In his speech delivered earlier in April, Jim Kim claimed that that “average scores for reading and math have risen high above their public school peers” in Bridge International Academies. Yet, the source of the data quoted by Jim Kim has not been disclosed by the World Bank, and it appears to have been taken directly from a study conducted by BIA itself.
The World Bank president further stated that “the cost per student at Bridge Academies is just $6 dollars a month”. This suggestion that $6 is an acceptable amount of money for poor households to pay reveals a profound lack of understanding of the reality of the lives of the poorest. Kenyan and Ugandan organisations have calculated that for half of the population in Kenya and Uganda, spending $6 per month per child to send three primary school age children to a Bridge Academy would cost at least a quarter of their monthly income – whereas these families are already struggling to be able to provide three meals a day to their children.
Moreover, the real total cost of sending one child to a Bridge school may in fact be between $9 and $13 a month, and up to $20 when including school meals. Based on these figures, sending three children to BIA would represent 68% (in Kenya) to 75% (in Uganda) of the monthly income of half the population in these countries.
Salima Namusobya, the Director of the Initiative for Socio-Economic Rights, a Ugandan organisation that also signed the joint statement, said:
“If the World Bank is genuine about fulfilling its mission to provide every child with the chance to have a high-quality primary education regardless of their family’s income, they should be campaigning for a no-fee system in particular contexts like that of Uganda.
The speech from Jim Kim came shortly after members of civil society from several countries, including Uganda, met with senior education officials of the World Bank specifically to discuss its support for fee-charging, private primary schools, and funding for BIA in particular.
It also comes at a time where there is an unprecedented increase in financing of private education across the world, especially in Africa, often with the support of foreign investors. These investments have attracted equally growing criticism, including in a recent report highlighting how the UK government, via its Department for International Development (DfID), supports privatising education and health services. DfID is also an investor in Bridge International Academies.
The organisations’ statement calls on the World Bank in particular to stop promoting and cease investing in Bridge International Academies and other fee-charging, private providers of basic education, and instead to support the free, public, quality education which the laws applicable in Kenya, Uganda, and other countries require.
Notes
BIA is backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidiya, and multinational publishing company Pearson, among others. It operates in Kenya and Uganda, with plans to invest in Nigeria, India and other countries. It now has close to 120,000 pupils enrolled in more than 400 schools.
Documents
* The statement can be found on http://bit.ly/statementWBprivatisation
* The letter accompanying the statement sent to Jim Kim, and which sums up the arguments made in the statement, can be found on http://bit.ly/letterWBprivatisation
* For more information on privatisation in education and projects currently being run, check http://bit.ly/privatisationproject.
* Follow the hashtag #EducationBeforeProfit on social media
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The new ‘colonialism’. Really does reinforce the ‘ugly American’ stereotype of the past.
Pierre Omidiyar is the guy that Glenn Greenwald and some others started a media venture with on the promise of “journalistic freedom”. I wonder how free any of them are to look into educational issues.
Lee Fang works at Omidiyar’s The Intercept. He’s did a stories on the for-profit Corinthian fraud & may be interested in looking into the World Bank’s foray into for-profit education exploiting poor countries.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/04/bankruptcy-filing-shows-corinthian-colleges-secretly-funded-d-c-think-tanks-dark-money-election-efforts/
The World Bank did this report in 2011 (aka, propaganda) about “New Evidence” about education accountability. Read it & you’ll find Race to the Top dogma.
Click to access makingschoolswork.pdf
It is pretty clear when people like Jitu Brown call Gates et al colonizers it is not hyperbole – it is fact.
Exactly, And then folks wonder why so many people in the world today hate us. At least the UK ultimately let the sun set on its global empire. Once we go in, whether with troops or capitalist carpet baggers, we don’t leave as long as there are people and resources that can still be exploited. Regardless of political party, free market neoliberals are destroying our country and the rest of the world as well.
Gates and Zukerberg don’t have enough money. They really have to take their brand of exploitation around the world? Does this mean they are weary of home grown exploitation?
“home grown (sociopathic) exploitation”
After the plunder…. “low-hanging fruit”.
Pre-school social impact bonds, targeting the most vulnerable, at the expense of the shrinking beleaguered middle class.
The social impact bonds for pre-school are expected to have a return to investors of about 5% a year, for preschool that extends out for about 20 years. The bonds are sometimes called pay for success contracts. In these contracts, there is always a “counterfactual” demand or proof of the program’s efficacy. This usually means– (a) there is a control group excluded from the investor-funded programs, and (b) the “providers” are required to have an investor-selected manager, and (c) the manager can fire “providers” at will if they are “underperforming,” and (d) big bucks flow to lawyers who write the contracts, also accountants, and external evaluators, and (e) the marketers of the bonds are shrewd in calculating the “savings to the gov’ment” for fronting the bill and making profits. The annual value of preschool for one child, according to one of these “evidence-based” sets of calculations (accompanied by some dubious inferences) is over $50,000. See Robinhood. org or see the summary of Utah preschool contact in brief at http://socialventures.com.au/case-studies/utah-high-quality-preschool-sib/
Also add to your vocabulary the phrase “payout children” or “payout cohort.” Those are the kids in the program that investors care about, but strictly in monetary terms. Investors make a profit from their progress from preschool to high school graduation and early employment history. You will see more citations of educational research and demographic research to support the “monetary worth” of the payouts than you will see as evidence to support billions in federal and state expenditures for education.
These schemes are being marketed by Goldman Sachs among others, hyped by the Obama administration and a SIB lab at Harvard that helps launch and nurture this new financial product. The product is so new that it foundations are providing backup for the investors in case things don’t pan out as marketed.
Laura,
As always, you impress!
Harvard’s reputation is in free fall.
Looks like Gates and Zuckerberg have a serious case of “Bwana Knows Best” syndrome. Can’t say the same for Pearson. They’re just greedy, exploitative slime.
I noticed Harpo Productions (aka Oprah Winfrey) is not included in that list. How effectively is her “experimental school” functioning these days? In my opinion, public education will always be a political football due to arrogance, conflicting ideologies and elitist agendas. Money (influence) is more powerful than knowledge (apologies to F. Bacon). Non-educators (irrespective of country) are virtually clueless about how to ignite and nurture the fire of curiosity in learners on a daily basis.
I don’t think Oprah Winfrey’s school is for-profit. Even though she had the Facebook guy on her show, I think her approach to education is on a completely different level. I really think she is sincerely trying to help- not looking to make money for herself.
I read up a bit, spurred by the question. She is definitely not for-profit; she seems to be taking it one small school at a time (hoping for a 2nd one in the states eventually), pouring tons of $ into it, supporting the small handfuls of graduates (whom she puts thro US college) with regular communication & ‘mother stuff’ like shopping trips w/grads for dorm necessities.. I’d thought the African school must have folded after a sex-abuse scandal a few yrs back. Instead she increased her investment, did some failure-analysis, finds better luck now with some strategies like getting the school involved w/the local community.
Oprah’s approach appears to be the opposite of the charter-chains (perhaps learned from the failed attempt in NOLA). She seems focused on learning how to help a limited number of needy young African women as best she can, with cautious plans for expansion. Far from the cookie-cutter ‘replication’ formulae we see here.
I know that Oprah has financially helped many young men through school at Morehouse College in Atlanta, and she may be doing something different in her school in South Africa. However, she has not publicly backed away from her alliance with corporate “reformers” here and she is responsible for promulgating teacher bashing on national TV, as well as promoting the myth of charter school miracles.
Perhaps some day Oprah will have a mea culpa moment; I don’t think she lives with her head under the sand, yet one wonders where did all these “waiting for superman” types go when the curtains were pulled and the sun shone in?
Meanwhile, when Obama finally addressed poverty the other day, despite calling out “cold hearted, capitalist types who are reading Ayn Rand” and dising Fox News for promoting stereotypes of the poor, like the many commentors here: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/05/12/obama-on-capitalist-types-reading-ayn-rand-and-think-everybody-are-moochers/ he still maintained that free markets are “perfectly compatible” with government “investment” programs.
Sounds like his solution to poverty is more public-private partnerships, where privatizers can capitalize off those in poverty, as with charter schools and social impact bonds for PreK.
All his decisions point to this misguided belief, which may work in some joint ventures, but not education. He should take an honest look at the harm his policies have caused.
Not enough discussion of so-called social impact bonds, also called pay-for-sucess contracts designed to secure profits for investors, not just for PreK. This is the newest method of privatizing government functions and social service organizations operating as non-profits. Obama administration gave grants to jump start this attack on civic culture.
“Sounds like [Obama’s] solution to poverty is more public-private partnerships, where privatizers can capitalize off those in poverty” — in other words, exactly the sort of crap called out in the posted statement by 100 int’l orgs against World Bank [& Gates/ Zuckerberg] support of for-profit chain schools in the world’s poorest countries.
Makes you wonder if Obama, who presents himself as a practical consensus-seeker, isn’t just another brand of ideologue [Chicago-Boys’ style] who ignores results on the ground. (And that’s generous. He could just be w/o ideology, in thrall to the big-$ guys.)
Yes, Laura, I completely agree. Social impact bonds originated in the UK not long ago they are still in the experimental stage, so that is yet one more free market solution that is being offered up by neoliberal profiteers which has yet to be proven.
I think Mark Rosenman describes the salient issues here (scroll down towards the bottom): “The social impact bond wars: The defense responds and the prosecution rests”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/social-impact-bond-wars-defense-responds-prosecution-rests/
Obama has suddenly (magically) found his voice on a lot of issues lately (poverty, climate change), now that there is nothing to be lost in the way of campaign contributions from corporations and wealthy individuals.
..and I’m sure millions of Americans are just lapping up everything he says.
Some people never learn.
Diane I was wondering if you might have a comment on Montgomery County MD superintendent search that seems to be focusing on Dr. Andrew Houlihan from the Houston Independent School District. I am not familiar with the Apollo 20 turnaround initiative. I do not see the information posted on the MCPS website yet so I cannot provide a link to the announcement staff received today.
MoCoTeacher:
Beware HISD.
I taught under Apollo 20 in Houston and it was awful. Teachers were disciplined for not doing full-time test prep starting in early October (for state tests given in the spring). The school manipulated drop-out stats by “counseling” students into saying that they were leaving to be home schooled. We had a lucrative deal with College Board and hence officially adopted their Spring Board curriculum — though we didn’t use it because it wasn’t compatible with state tests.
This is horrible but the education system is really damaged in so many African countries. We have guy in our community that is a refugee from Liberia. He started this organization to build schools in Liberia. https://www.facebook.com/changeagentnetwork?fref=ts He’s built at least two schools so far in Liberia. He also worked to send containers of medical supplies to Liberia during the Ebola epidemic. If we don’t want Gates, Pearson, and company profiteering off the backs of the poor in Africa we need to support charities run by people like Eric.
I guess the rich white men aren’t just trying to fuck education here in the U.S. See below.
Rebecca Miller
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“Chris Hedges says America on road to revolution, even in Baltimore”
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-13-2015-1.3072112/chris-hedges-says-america-on-road-to-revolution-even-in-baltimore-1.3072170
When it is considered to be perfectly acceptable for zillionaires with no moral compass to claim they are philanthropists –and receive tax breaks for what they do– while they are exploiting and capitalizing off the most vulnerable people in the world, I think that’s a sure sign we are moving towards “the pitchforks.” It won’t be just here either, but in every country our insatiable capitalists have been colonizing.
Plutocrats should take heed because they are sorely outnumbered and their disgraceful, greedy behaviors are awaking the sleeping giant:
“The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz35r1vMLA1
Read what Hanauer said about the pitchforks coming for plutocrats very carefully, because he is fighting more for his fellow free market billionaires than for the 99%. He’s no better than other neoliberals who just can’t get enough money. While he argues about the fallacies of trick-down economics and the billionaire class as jobs creators, he has supported increasing the minimum wage only because the 1% stands to make even greater profits as a result, since then their customer base will expand to include more people who can afford to shop. He is right, but his mission has nothing to do with equity or fairness.
Hanauer is in Seattle, where he has an education foundation and he co-founded the League of Education Voters (LEV) and associated PAC, which promote corporate education “reforms.” LEV has taken a lot of money from Gates over the years. (See: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database#q/k=LEV&page=2 ) and they promote everything that Gates supports, including a two tiered system of education with charter schools. So, when the pitchforks are aimed, there are plenty of reasons for serfs and supporters of public education to be staring directly at him as well.
Cosmic Thinker,
Hanauer, not unlike Warren Buffett, who gives his “philanthropic” money to Gates for spending.
Right, Linda. If the IRS is not going to closely examine how foundations are profiting from their “philanthropic” investments, as well as their thinly veiled involvement in politics in order to get their preferred policies in place, they should at least look at how money is transferred from one billionaire’s foundation to another’s. It all seems inherently nefarious, since those are huge expenditures involving billionaires giving large sums to other billionaires who don’t really need more money, all of which are tax write-offs.
So many of these supposedly “charitable” organizations do this in the name of “educating” the public, including ALEC, but when did influencing politicians and profiteering become synonymous with educating the public? As long as the IRS keeps letting 501(c)3s get away with such outrageous, self-serving behaviors, the donor class will continue to be free to wheel and deal under the guise of their tax exempt foundations.
PRWatch and Lisa Graves have done an amazing job of focusing attention on the activities of ALEC. As a result, demands for review of ALEC’s tax status, are gaining momentum. Reports indicate major companies have departed ALEC.
By voting for PRWatch, at Credo (not the education organization), this important organization will have the opportunity to receive $100,000, at the end of May, which will enable them to redouble their efforts. To vote, all a person needs to do is sign one of the Credo petitions. The petitions are carefully crafted and focus on the will of the people. They help to inform about the critical decisions being made in the national and state capitols. Once a person signs, for purposes of voting, he/she becomes “an active member.”
Linda, Thanks for the info. I wanted to vote and provide a link to that page here, but it took awhile to find it because PRWatch is sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and that’s the name CREDO is using, not PRWatch.
Folks can vote for CMD by clicking on the orange sign that says Vote for Us and CREDO on this page regarding their work on the IRS tax exempt matter for ALEC and then following the instructions on the next page:
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/05/12829/groups-add-evidence-whistleblower-tax-fraud-claim-against-alec
CMD/PRWatch also recently posted reports regarding $3.3B that has gone to fuel the growth of the charter school industry without regulatory oversight or an accounting of how that money has been spent:
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/05/12830/federal-billions-fuel-charter-school-industry
Cosmic thinker,
Thanks very much! I appreciate that you made it easier for blog readers to support the Center for Media and Democracy. They created the new, UnKochmyCampus.org and they also are responsible for Sourcewatch.
PRWatch has great people doing many great things.
Sounds like Gates and Pearson now own and control the World Bank too. Is this the rise of a 21st century reinvention if fascism—will Bill Gates be the next Hitler or Stalin with Pearson as his SS or KGB?
Just in case anyone was duped into thinking today’s billionaires involved in vulture philanthropy have no need or interest in acquiring more wealth, along comes evidence that they feel entitled to exploit even the most vulnerable paupers on the planet. As with charters, if they really cared about educated the world’s children, they would be funding public schools instead of get rich quick schemes for profiteers.
Correction: educating not educated. Sorry.
Jitu called it out for what it is: Colonialism.
They might be so enthralled with themselves that they really believe they’re doing a service in The New World Order (which nobody ever voted for).
Everything nice, neat, tidy, and (most importantly) standardized. Easy to quantify. The workers of tomorrow.
AND they get to turn a hefty profit as well!
Greed feeds on itself. Talk to someone who left that life. It’s always the same: once you get that money and the power that goes with it, the more you want of it.
A Gates-funded organization described schools as “under developed human capital pipelines”
These philanthropists will add their names in the grand tale of “Educational Colonialism in the Age of Global Capitalism,” which will hold America solely responsible for spreading domestic ‘privatization’ disease around the world. Screw you IMF and World Bank.
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Portland Public Schools
Prince George’s County Public Schools
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Regents Research Fund
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Rhode Island Department of Education
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Teach For America – Atlanta
Tennessee Department of Education
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University of Michigan
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Clarity,
Thanks for the research and posting.
Most welcome. I hope it is useful for those researching their election prospects, etc.
Daily Kos recently reposted charts that show the interlinking of villainthropists and the education deform organizations that they sponsor.
Your detailed listing adds significantly to the accumulating body of information.
For The Broad Academy Alumni Careers, see: http://www.broadcenter.org/academy/network/profiles/category/alumni
This from the Clinton Foundation, furthering secondary education in Kenya. Hillary and Chelsea are already involved with Melinda Gates, creating a worldwide database on women…what are they really up to?
https://action.clintonfoundation.org/pub/sf/FormLink?_ri_=X0Gzc2X%3DWQpglLjHJlYQGipzb3JWbXRrcova1ezdHsC7zbu3mqqnA1zcbnVXMtX%3DWQpglLjHJlYQGsNMoimutfLX3c0Fk7zbBKzdRS07zamCIwmnn&_ei_=EolaGGF4SNMvxFF7KucKuWM50G-ndkImP6VpDqcOyW_op-y_HuTfOVTHFsH2i_iHg-nVjB3qiK2nx6Gk7wA.
Also, does anybody out there keep up with Pearson’s Tumblr? They publish some rather candid stuff about their program development.
The Gates and Clinton women are promoting “No Ceiling”. Other groups, like the Walton-funded Center for American Progress and Ford Foundation and Roosevelt Institute are joining them, with a similar rhetorical effort. Meantime, the latter coalesced with the education “reform” movement (financed by male dominated, hedge funds and Silicon Valley).
Lip service about concern for equitable pay, deflects from “reform” that destroys opportunity and pay for women. Vulture philanthropies have every reason to know, based on progress in Black pay, in the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act, that rhetoric is ineffective, while stacking a deck against opportunity, can be very advantageous to profit-making.
I wrote to my U.S. representative and senators asking them to review and contact the World Bank, regarding its endorsement of education privatization. While Pres. Obama nominated the head of the World Bank, Jim Kim, it does not mean that faith, in the U.S. President’s for-profit education policy, is warranted. Among industrialized countries, the United States has one of the highest rates of income disparity, which is neither good for economic growth nor fairness.
The out-sized influence of oligarch campaign donations, on U.S. politicians, does not negate the responsibility of the World Bank for integrity, even if the 100 organizations who signed the letter, find themselves with a windfall of cash from Silicon Valley moguls, resulting in a reverse in their stated view.
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What is the opposite of Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave to the poor?
The answer is Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidiyar, and multinational publishing company Pearson that have been revealed as parasites sucking what little money people living in extreme poverty have while offering a shoddy, questionable education in return.
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the neoliberal philanthropirates are at it again…and not just in the U.S.
I think we should give them like 5 years only and see what they can do interms of offering knowledge, lets not underate them.
Their training is awful,poor meals for the trainees,salary scale is also not worth the current economy in Kenya.This I call neo-colonialism.They go for those who are desparate and have no otherwise.