Valerie Strauss wrote an excellent article about the hypocrisy of Democrats who now loudly oppose Billionaire Betsy DeVos, but spent the last eight years bashing teachers, unions, and public schools while pouring billions of dollars into the proliferation of privately-managed charter schools. Once Democrats became cheerleaders for school choice, they abandoned the principle that public schools under democratic control are a fundamental public responsibility.
I urge you to read this article, which recounts the perfidy of Democrats who fell for privatization and betrayed public education. In many cases, support for charter schools opened the door to billionaires and hedge funder donations, to groups like Democrats for Education Reform and Education Reform Now and Families for Excellent Schools. Think Corey Booker, Andrew Cuomo, Dannell Malloy. Think of the silence of the Democrats as the U.S. Department of Education spent more than $3 billion on charter schools. How do they now express opposition to DeVos’s love for charters (and vouchers). She has exposed their hypocrisy.
Both of my last two books are about this theme–how the Democrats embraced privatization and opened the door to vouchers.
So I have to add a couple of points to her accurate summary:
In March 2011, President Obama and Secretary Duncan were in Miami with Jeb Bush to celebrate the “turnaround” of Miami Central High School. At the same time, thousands of working people were protesting the anti-labor policies of Scott Walker in Madison. Neither Obama nor Duncan ever showed up in Madison to show support for the teachers and union members who support Democrats.
The other point that needs to be added is that a month after Obama, Arne, and Jeb met to toast the turnaround of Miami Central, the state education Department in Florida listed it as a “failing” school that should be closed. I reported this in “Reign of Error.” The press never did report it. Why were Obama and Arne burnishing Jeb’s “credentials” as a “reformer?” Paving the way for Jeb’s good friend Betsy DeVos.
Let’s see if Democrats rediscover the importance of public education, where all kids are welcome, no lottery, no exclusion of kids with disabilities. In public schools, not every child can get admission to every school, but every child must be served and enrolled. Not some, but all.
have to add
Ah so…Strauss mentions DFERs and other Dems like Cory Booker, fair game…but no where does she mention the names of the two most important Dems who have spoken, and acted, in favor of charters schools. Here are googled articles about both Dem candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders jumps into Massachusetts’s charter school fight …
https://www.boston.com/…/bernie-sanders-jumps-into-massachusettss-charter-school-f…Nov 2, 2016 – Bernie Sanders says he opposes the Massachusetts ballot question to … which has alsosupported efforts to increase charter schools in other …
Bernie Sanders on Education – OnTheIssues.org
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_Education.htmBernie does not oppose charter schools–that is, schools that are privately managed but funded by taxes. Indeed, Bernie voted for the Charter School Expansion …
Bernie Sanders Says He Opposes Private Charter Schools. What …
http://www.npr.org/…/bernie-sanders-says-he-opposes-private-charter-schools-what-does-th…Mar 15, 2016 – K-12 education hasn’t exactly been front and center in this presidential election, but Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders made some news …
‘Private’ Charter Schools? Fact-Checking Bernie Sanders – Education …
http://www.ewa.org/blog-educated…/private-charter-schools-fact-checking-bernie-sandersMar 14, 2016 – At the Democratic Town Hall Sunday night in Columbus, Ohio, Sen. Bernie Sanders was asked whether he supported charter schools.
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members.Jul 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s charter school comments prompt boos at … – Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-charter-school-teachers-union-boos-225117
FeedbackAbout this result • Hillary Clinton’s charter school comments prompt boos at … – Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-charter-school-teachers-union-boos-225117Jul 5, 2016 – A school may be nonprofit, but it can hire a for-profit management company, which can be run by the same people as the nonprofit. The Clintons are longtime charter school supporters, but charters are opposed by many teachers union members.
Hillary Clinton’s School Choice – WSJ – Wall Street Journal
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clintons-school-choice-1470000357Jul 31, 2016 – Hillary Clinton used to support charter schools. Now she’s for the union agenda, says an editorial in The Wall Street Journal.
Hillary Clinton on Education – OnTheIssues.org
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Hillary_Clinton_Education.htmHillary Clinton on Education; Presidential candidates. … Supports public school choice and charter schools. Some critics of public schools urge greater …
Clinton’s Pro-Charter School Comments Draw Boos from Teachers …
http://www.commondreams.org/…/clintons-pro-charter-school-comments-draw-boos-teache…Jul 5, 2016 – Hillary Clinton was booed at a National Education Association (NEA) event on … Democratic presidential frontrunner has a mixed record on support for … The Clintons are longtimecharter school supporters, but charters are …
Hillary Clinton affirms support for charter schools – redefinED
https://www.redefinedonline.org/2016/07/hillary-clinton-charter-schools/Jul 6, 2016 – Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all supported charter schools. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has said he’s “very much in favor” of choice and competition in public education.
Hillary Clinton and Charter School Myths
nancyebailey.com/2016/07/19/hillary-clinton-and-charter-school-myths/Jul 19, 2016 – Under “choice,” they mention that Hillary Clinton upset some charter … has alsosupported what she quantifies as high quality charter schools …
Yes, Hillary Clinton supports charter schools. She also supports equity …
https://medium.com/…/yes-hillary-clinton-supports-charter-schools-she-also-supports-…Nov 13, 2015 – Hillary’s recent comments about charter school equity and inclusion have sparked a conversation about America’s public schools. It’s an …
Why Hillary Clinton got booed (briefly) at the National Education …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/why-hillary-clinton-got-booed-briefly-at-the-nation…Jul 5, 2016 – Hillary Clinton addressed the National Education Association — the country’s … its supportfor the expansion of charter schools and the controversial … It was when Clinton spoke about charter schools to the NEA that boos …
Hillary Clinton Booed by Teachers over Charter School Comment …
https://www.democracynow.org/…/hillary_clinton_boo_ed_by_teachers_over_charter…Jul 6, 2016 – Hillary Clinton Booed by Teachers over Charter School Comment … from some of its rank-and-file members who supported Bernie Sanders.
Once again, that may apply to the absentee, national, so-called “leadership” but it does not describe the base of the Democratic Party, most especially in Michigan, where Dems have resisted the Governerd, his minions, and his masters like the DeVoses since the outset.
Wish I could say the same for LA, Jon.
Every day I speak with local Dems who love the charters their kids and grandkids attend. When I try to explain the lack of oversight of taxpayers funding, which takes away from true public schools, most of these middle class educated Dems argue that they personally can control their charters, but that the LAUSD district gives parents no voice. I hear the same from inner city parents.
After years of informally collecting this info, I tend to think that perhaps the district’s colluding with the charterizers (like Broad since about 1999, almost twenty years) is in great part responsible for this situation. When LAUSD started taking money from Broad, they lost their independence and their moral superiority as well as their direction.
This is what I learned during the Recall Governor Snyder and the Repeal Emergency Manager Law campaigns. The latter succeeded but the Legislature spat in the People’s face by passing the same bill all over again and the Michigan Supreme Court let them get away with it.
If I may, let me just add that you are pointing out something that, at least IMHO, many supporters of public education and a “better education for all” have spent many years exposing and trying to fix.
That is, when you take the “public” out of “public schools”—whether by way of corporate charters & vouchers or public schools by means of exclusionary/anti-democratic practices—you may be providing something of excellence for a few but you are paving the way for catastrophe for many many others.
Of all the commenters on this blog, Chiara has most often pointed out the importance of looking at things from a system perspective, i.e., that even when not acknowledged (rheephormsters are especially prone to this) there are many moving parts in an educational system and a change in one part/place often affects many other places/parts.
Thank you for your remarks and for keeping it real, not rheeal…
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Dear Krazed One…these words of yours are key factors.
“That is, when you take the “public” out of “public schools”—whether by way of corporate charters & vouchers or public schools by means of exclusionary/anti-democratic practices—you may be providing something of excellence for a few but you are paving the way for catastrophe for many many others.”
You may remember that some years ago, we in LA had a BoE member named Marilyn Cantor…a well to do, and probably well meaning woman who left her elected slot to set up a charter school. Some very rich folks in LA were and are on her Board. She was followed by others even more well to do who also felt they were well meaning citizens by starting even more charters.
And another LAUSD BoE member named Clarice Young decided she could really enrich herself by taking over CCSA..and now she runs the local Gulen Magnolia Charter schools.
We are facing an election in March to determine the fate of two pro public school candidates, incumbent Steve Zimmer who just got the whammy that billionaire Riordan kicked in $1 M this week to defeat him, and the other Lisa Alva, a true second generation Latina teacher of 18 years who lives in the majority Latino district of Boyle Heights, and is running on a pittance against the worst incumbent, but best funded, running to promote and implement ever more LA charter schools, Monica Garcia, who gobbles cash from her long supporters, the billionaires. It is once again a David v. Goliath scenario. Both Zimmer and Alva have won endorsement from NPE but need all the help we REAL public school advocates can give them.
However as you suggest, some of these established charters are in the most tony areas of town such as El Camino Charter HS and Pacific Palisades Charter HS, and some are in the inner cities but are manipulated by Broad and Deasy and Austin. Some few are doing a good job with deep pockets help and others are a travesty.
When Eli Broad and the Waltons, and their claque of billionaires paid Ben Austin over $14 M in 2009 -10 to implement Parent Revolution with the collusion of State Senator Gloria Romero. these two wrote the Parental Empowerment Act and it sounded so fair to parents that an uninformed, and/or bought off, Legislature saw that it passed.
We California educators have fought off the voucher vultures in the 1990s, and like zombies, here they are again…arisen undead to plague us yet again by calling their choices PUBLIC though all that is public is the funding they usurp from the public and the public schools to run their private ventures.
As to real v. rheel…. old timers in this battle to save our public schools have always been REAL.
Ellen…someone I respect and talk to about these things when I can, is my nephew’s wife…Sarah Reckhow. (her husband is the author of asymmetric politics). I don’t know if you ever heard of her book…”Follow the Money”. She is very critical of Bill Gates and other “philanthropists”…..I have never quite understood her praise of Los Angeles….”a slower, but possibly more transformative, set of reforms have been taking place in Los Angeles. These reforms were also funded and shaped by major foundations, but they work from the bottom up, through charter school operators managing networks of schools. This strategy has built grassroots political momentum and demand for reform in Los Angeles that is unmatched in New York City and other districts with mayoral control.” Reckhow’s study of Los Angeles’s education system shows how democratically responsive urban school reform could occur-pairing foundation investment with broad grassroots involvement. I do not know if she shares my perception of the curtain being pulled back to reveal the same krap in LA—-and I think it must have something to do with democracy….but I sure do value anything you can tell us about how LA is different.
When they give up mega donors that the Clintons
brought in and ignored the working class. I agree with Bernie Sanders that the Democrats need to also concentrate on jobs, progressive taxation, in general bread & butter issues and not put so much emphasis on identity politics.
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The fact that you and others would use the term “identity politics” is part of the problem. If you mean what I think you do, then these are neither mutually exclusive, zero-sum issues. Bear with me, please, because I believe we are on the same side. Here is a vision for the Democratic I would propose. I believe the best poetic summation of issues like “jobs, progressive taxation, in general bread & butter issues” is in Patterson Hood’s song “Putting People on the Moon.” What we need to do is find a vision that addresses this issues raised in this song and meld it with the principles of the Four Freedoms. If we can find that rhetoric and meld it with policy, I think we’ve got a winning formula for generations to come.
Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did
We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since
Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they’re shutting down
God damned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn
Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon
While over there in Huntsville, They puttin’ people on the moon
So I took to runnin’ numbers for this man I used to know
And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow
I ain’t getting rich now but I’m gettin’ more than by
It’s really tough to make a living but a man just got to try
If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news?
They too busy blowin’ rockets, Puttin’ people on the moon
Mary Alice quit askin’ why I do the things I do
I ain’t sayin’ that she likes it, but what else I’m gonna do?
If I could solve the world’s problems I’d probably start with hers and mine
But they can put a man on the moon
And I’m stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by
Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here
Seems everyone I know is gettin’ cancer every year
And we can’t afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed
So she didn’t get no chemo so our lives was destroyed
And nothin’ ever changes, the cemetery gets more full
And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA’s shut down too
Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin’ round
But I’m still workin’ at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground
And all them politicians, they all lyin’ sacks of shit
They say better days upon us but I’m sucking left hind tit
And the preacher on the TV says it ain’t too late for me
But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I’m broke with some hungry mouths to feed
I wish I’z still an outlaw, was a better way of life
I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife
And if you say I’m being punished. Ain’t he got better things to do?
Turnin’ mountains into oceans Puttin’ people on the moon
Turnin’ mountains into oceans Puttin’ people on the moon
For those of you who want to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeYGo33_wkY
Agreed!
Whew! I didn’t want you to misunderstand me. I think if Hillary Clinton’s folks had listened to that song a few times (or read the lyrics if the music wasn’t their thing) and tried to build a campaign around getting guys like that to vote for her, she would have won in a landslide. Actually, almost any of Patterson’s songs will give a people an idea of what it is to be an angry white male who thinks himself disenfranchised and isn’t a bigot feels like.
“The Democrats Lost their voice”
They lost their voice on Wall Street
In talks with Jamie Dimon
It made them hoarse to oft repeat
“I so adore your diamond”
Worthy of a banner flown over the Capitol.
Many Democratic politicians have been guilty of bait and switch policies of interest to working families. They have pandered to Silicon Valley and Wall St because they make large donations. They have forgotten who their base is, the working people. Democrats talk the talk, but their policies have favored corporations. That is one reason for the artificial sense of excitement in Hillary’s campaign. If Democrats fail to support public education and jobs for displaced workers, they may get lots of donations, but they won’t get enough votes to make a difference. This was part of Obama’s problem when the Democrats lost the legislature. Democrats should start being truthful with voters, or they may find voters will be shopping for a third party. Democrats should come up with a strategy to counter ALEC’s grassroots political activism as they are losing ground in local elections and governors. Democrats need to take a long hard look at themselves.
This is why the status quo, long time, Dem legislators should not be leading the Party. This is their legacy.
Perhaps this can change if the 35 year old challenger to Ellison and Perez for DNC Chair can make the paradigm shift back to the real people who need real Dem fighters in Congress, not wealthy collaborators, and those with too much baggage.
Too many Dems in DC are millionaires and some are billionaires. Also, not one legislator of any Party should have lifetime benefits like health care, pensions, etc. any better than their constituents. And there must be a stop to their insider trading. What a huge budget line item savings that would present.
I want to clarify my comments and add that I am so very pleased with my new Senator Kamala Harris who stays in touch with her constituents every day. And she was excellent in questioning Trump’s new candidates.
Also those brave and honorable Dems like John Lewis, and our own LA Congresswoman Karen Bass, who chose not to recognize the Trump deformer era by attending the inauguration. Those 50 or so legislators did step up for truth, unlike those who averted their glance and attention when teachers needed support in Wisconsin and in Chicago.
I am not painting all Dems, nor all legislators, with the same brush.
I agree it is unfair to paint all Democrats with the same brush. It would certainly help democracy if we could get the money out of politics. That’s not going to happen for the next four years. In fact, it will probably get worse.
“Suburban Grizzly Mom’s”
Arne Duncan paved the way
For Betsy and her bears
Nothing Dems could ever say
Would exculpate their errs
“Billion heirs”
The heirs of DOE
Have billions forin the bank
And Gates and Betsy D.
Have bought official rank
In the bank
Damned self correct
It felt even more correct to read “foreign” banks…
“The Maestro”
(A brief historical recap for those who have already forgotten — or perhaps never knew)
Chetty played the VAMdolin
At Nobel-chasing speed
Arne played the basket-rim
And Rhee, she played the rheed
Coleman played his Core-o-net
Eva played the lyre
Billy Gates played tete-a-tete
With Duncan and with higher
Sanders* beat his cattle drum
Devalue added model
Pseudo-science weighted sum
Mathturbated twaddle
John King played the slide VAMbone
But Maestro was Obama
Who hired the band and set the tone
For current grizzly drama
*William Sanders, who tweaked his algorithm for modeling cattle growth to model the intellectual growth of students and evaluate teachers.
SomeDAM Poet:
I don’t know how you do it…
But you’ve topped yourself once again!
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Ahhh….well done again, oh poet laureate of the blogosphere.
Some. Dam. Poet.
You have been missed – so glad you are back.
Some DAM: You’ve explained it all in this most excellent poem.
No more expository needed. You even included the last backstab…appointment of John King. Well done, short, sweet & to the point.
The man or woman blogging here
Has this up right proud
I can but wait
And salivate
For future laughs out loud.
Our president for sure
Will beckon so much more
I will be waiting
Breath abating
Laughing loudly, shore.
It is a very sad thing, but here it is: Americans are just going to have to learn by peeing on the electric fence when it comes to this one. Just because someone ISN’T in a union, doesn’t automatically make them an altruistic friend who you should trust with your money.
And Americans will NOT learn this lesson easily. It will take them a LONG time to figure it out.
In St. Louis, they were ahead of the curve….a three person appointed board started making decisions in 2007, and will continue to until 2019. They are being credit for helping the city district to rebound to full accreditation….somewhere along the line, the charter students no longer were a part of the district….the 11,000 students were not even mentioned in the recent story of the recovery of accreditation by the 24,000 non charter students……the Gulen school, Gateway, 68% white in an 82% black district is included when they figure the test results. It is not at all clear just what happens with the other charter schools, but they are not all counted. I did get a report from the state department of education that the enrollment is more than 35,000…..they simply report whatever sounds good, and do not worry about facts.
And this is The Brave New World…who cares about facts.
We have alternative facts now.
This post. ^
And all its comments.
“Let’s see if Democrats rediscover the importance of public education, where all kids are welcome, no lottery, no exclusion of kids with disabilities. In public schools, not every child can get admission to every school, but every child must be served and enrolled. Not some, but all.”
And if they don’t… and a third party– say the Working Families Party or the Green Party— DOES, do readers of this blog and other public school advocates jump ship? How long can we be patient with a two party system where both parties favor “reform”?
Let me take the liberty of answering my own question: How long CAN public school advocates be patient with the Democratic party? Maybe when the party sees how ESSA plays out in the 35 States controlled by Republicans they will wake up to the fact that schools are civic institutions and not businesses. I am working on two letters to oppose two appalling bills in the Republican controlled NH legislature… two bills that are likely to pass, be signed by the recently elected Republican governor, and implemented by his recently nominated Secretary of Education, a businessman who has no experience as an educator and homeschooled his seven children. NH schools are among the best in the nation… but our Governor and presumptive Secretary of Education both think that providing parents with vouchers is a good idea and an independent commission is needed to approve charter schools and the legislature has already passed an ALEC right to work bill… Look at what is transpiring in NH if you want to see how ESSA is going to play out… My local delegation “gets” what is going on. I hope the rest of the State wakes up soon before our public schools are compromised even more!
I think Tim Kaine’s comment (who if I recollect correctly, lots of y’all were cheering his nomination as VP to HRC) was pretty clueless and apparently in a bubble and clueless as well with the following statement he made at Betsy DeVos Ed Secretary hearing.
Plus it’s also hypocritical to state “enrolling and serving kids with disabilities” is equivalent to providing them an education that equates to a FAPE.
From the hearing this week….
Kaine: “So some states might be good to kids with disabilities and other states might not be so good, and then what? People can just move around the country if they don’t like how their kids are being treated?”
Hmmm….Well, let’s see… Isn’t that pretty much the reality CURRENTLY in most public school districts across this nation as it stands? Take what is offered – even if it flies in the face of the intent of IDEA (along with Child Find, NCLB, 504 and ADA too) – or leave it – when it comes to providing SpecEd students with a FAPE?
(And if those poor Title 1 students, SpecEd students or ELLs happen to fall thru the cracks, oh well, it’s not the public schools responsibility (as I’m frequently informed from most of ya’all on here in response to this exact topic.) Correct?
Y’all make it sound like it’s such a rare occurrence- but it’s not rare at all!- it’s actually the standard operating procedure in the schools across this nation it seems. Isn’t that correct?
Plus my foster son personally also did just that (as did our family after adopting him, we moved to different districts within the state) in hopes of finding a school that would actually seriously work with us to close the gaps he presented to us and to them with; yet not one single district chose to do so- and hence we found out first hand that the scope of this exact problem is more widespread than a single school or a single school district! (Or even a single state!)
And reality is that most families won’t just be able to pick up and move anyways.
So we found out that parents who get pushed out of the public school to get their child the proper help and who then speak up about what’s not going right and who get pushed out to the private sector to get the proper instructional help- after asking to work with the school in resolving a students EDUCATIONAL DEFICT SKILLS THAT HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY IGNORED and which they were getting financially reimbursed to do— and which their own independent CASDA audit report affirmed (I might add (Lloyd) and can share from Dropbox too of you don’t believe me as y’all have repeatedly bashed me for telling our personal story about how the current system fails kids like my foster son routinely, yet this independent report confirmed that was indeed just exactly what was happening in our district!)
Y’all can try to say public schools aren’t cherry picking students- but they also leave a lot to be desired regarding SpecEd programming; as well as they have a whole heck of a lot of work to do to help these students close the gaps that these kids present with- before public schools can SERIOUSLY state that they TRULY care about l IDEA students receiving a meaningful and beneficial education in the SpecEd arena! Honestly, I’d be willing to forgo Special Ed classification if the charter or private schools were working with our son and family collaboratively to appropriately and effectively ADDRESS & REMEDIATE known deficit skill sets.
I’m also hoping that the SCOTUS will resolve the vagueness present in the current language of IDEA and bring all the circuits to the same baseline language regarding what is meant by more than deminimis education relating to FAPE and Spec Ed students.
M, you apparently had a very bad experience with your own child. I am very sorry for your troubles.
I have asked before and will ask again that you not use your personal experience to condemn all schools and all teachers.
Why don’t you send your child to a charter school or a voucher school?
As Tim Kaine said, when kids use a voucher in Florida, they renounce their legal rights.
Please stop using your personal experience to make generalizations.
I’m not generalizing Dr Ravitch.
Our experience is not unique nor was it an exception!
The exceptions actually are schools willingly working collaboratively with families to get the students the appropriate and effective help they need to achieve to a level of proficiency and ability – versus to ignore their struggles and areas of deficit and to provide them only deminimus educational benefit therefore be ensuring that the students only achieve to their level of disability!
And if you extrapolate the hundreds of parents across the country that I’ve spoken to since we started this journey 6 yrs ago, that’s thousands alone, and then if you continue to extrapolate that with all of they other families across this nation in Decoding Dyslexia chapters and add in the other 12 categories under IDEA and then the 504 families your looking at millions of students that are being left behind and failing to achieve at grade level or to their ability levels!
Again this is even before you add in the ESL and Title one at risk students!
So I’m not generalizing! I’m speaking for those families that are disenfranchised with the current system and who experience unwillingness from their school districts to help them help heir children to become proficient and independent students that can demonstrate foundational literacy and numeracy skills with age and grade level proficiency!
You can bash me now until the cows come home for speaking up about this white elephant in the room, but it is very real and it’s not the exception! and I’m not generalizing based solely on my own personal experience!!!!
What was the exception though is the trajectory that my foster-adopted son eventually ended up on. With all of the strikes he had arrived with relating to his educational needs- as well as the late age he eventually was provided with the proper remedial methodologies (privately and doing it on his limited down time OUTSIDE of the school – twice a week for more than 2 yrs and equivalent to another full school day when counting the time spent transporting to and from tutoring a minimum of twice a week, ) and achieving the amount of college credits he did (again on his own time and our dimes as well), and to then graduate a year early as a HS Junior with 33 college credits and earning an Advanced Regent HS diploma – that fact I will agree with being the one and only exception to the story being told repeatedly by the other families I’ve communicated with!
LCT- NY (not Louisiana)- And this state (NY) typically sits near the top of the per student spending amount on education, so it’s not that they don’t get funded adequately enough…. The amount spent per Special Ed student is more than adequate for educating SLD students! And in our situation, the school is reimbursed for providing educational instruction from his original school district that he was in when he entered foster care. So there was no cost to our school district outside of that. They were getting reimbursed at Tier 3 special Ed tuition rates (>$28K+) …..Plus our district got another $1800 a year for having a foster child places in district to top it all off in addition to spec Ed tuition and transportation costs that they were also getting!
M,
Please put your child in Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy or a religious school and let us know how it works out
M,
In which state did you move around? Was it Louisiana perchance?