PublicSchoolsFirst in North Carolina–a parent-led organization– has produced a short video urging the public and the legislature to reject an “achievement school district” modeled on the ones in New Orleans, Tennessee, and Michigan. The video accurately says that none of these models has succeeded. New Orleans is controversial; the one in Tennessee has produced negligible or no gains in test scores; the one in Michigan was an abject failure.
The legislature is considering a bill that would select the lowest performing schools in the state and put them into a non-contiguous district, where they would then be turned over to charter operators, some of them for-profit charter chains from out of state. This model has no record of success. The goal of this model, which is promoted by ALEC, is to privatize public schools and eliminate local control.
The video recommends that North Carolina continue to implement its home-grown turnaround model, which has shown promising results, protects local schools, and keeps out for-profit charter operators.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Part of a multifaced effort to diminish the public sphere.
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When the deformers are done, and the whole of the USA is charter schools, religious schools and private schools, the latter 2 funded by vouchers no doubt, what on earth will they do with their evilness? How will they continue to screw We The People?
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In which city do they try to do this? My recollection is that in TN ASD only took schools over in cities.
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NC wants to create a special district of low performing schools and hand them over to charter operators
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