Here is a recap of the debate between Julian Vasquez Heilig and Christopher Stewart of the Walton-funded “Education Post.”

The proposition debated was “Charters and Vouchers are the answer.”

Categories Charter Schools, Education Reform, Privatization, Vouchers

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Laura H. Chapman says:

March 22, 2017 at 5:36 pm

I appreciated the text version. Have not seen the You tube yet. All points clear and concise from Julian Vasquez Heileg.

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- ciedie aech says:
  
  March 23, 2017 at 1:32 pm
  
  I so hope that Julian Vasquez Heileg will be invited to speak at more and more venues….including National Teachers’ Union meetings?
  
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Chiara says:

March 22, 2017 at 11:01 pm

Education Post has gone from 100% promotion of charter schools to about 80% charters, 20% vouchers.

Eventually they’ll be at 50/50 charter/voucher per echo chamber guidelines.

Public schools don’t even exist to these people. The think tank pieces are incredible. Public schools usually get a mention in the concluding paragraph as a sort of necessary evil to be barely tolerated until they can privatize the whole system.

They think they’re doing you a favor allowing any to stay open, forget about “investing in” or “improving”. It’s wild to me because the kids and parents in these schools have no idea the Best and Brightest are essentially “winding down” the schools their children currently attend. The arrogance of it just takes my breath away. A “debate” conducted entirely without the 90% of people who use the schools!

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gitapik says:

March 23, 2017 at 8:49 am

I’m disheartened to see the shift of those who accepted the premise of charters and vouchers as “the answer”. Started at 11% and moved to 43%.

Decades of assault on the public schools from billionaires who own and influence the mainstream (and public) media and so many of our representatives have created the false impression that our public school system is broken. Now that they’ve established that lie as a foundation, they move on to the debate of what should be used as a replacement.

It’s ironic that the extremely wealthy people who are championing such big changes are the very ones who are so greatly benefitting from the root cause of the problem: income inequality and poverty.

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- Duane E Swacker says:
  
  March 23, 2017 at 9:31 am
  
  It’s not ironic. It’s the way those wealthy want it to be. It is tragic.
  
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audhilly says:

March 23, 2017 at 9:36 am

I was surprised that no one came back around and pinned Stewart on the issue of charters filtering who goes to their schools. The parent that asked this question detailed exactly how New Orleans charters are using addresses to keep certain kids out. He never got an answer and that is shameful. Stewart just pivoted away and although Heilig tried to bring that convo back around, it devolved into a nobody cares discussion about who invented charter schools ending with Stewart’s non responsive tit for tat “I can help you with that” smuggery. You could wish the parent had gotten back up and refused to have his question washed away by all that seamy cleverness. But, it was not to be.

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