Brian Malone, videographer, produced a film called “Education, Inc.” in which he portrayed the intrusion of Dark Money into School Board Elections, with the goal of privatization and destruction of public schools. He focused on Dougco in Colorado, where Voucher forces used big money to take control of the local school board.
On Tuesday night, organized parents and teachers elected their slate of public school supporters.
Brian Malone was there to film it, and he says he will change the ending of “Education, Inc.”
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For now, public education is back in Douglas County!
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From Mother Jones:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/voters-in-this-colorado-county-just-sent-betsy-devos-a-helluva-message/#
MOTHER JONES:
On Tuesday night, the longstanding fight over a controversial voucher program in Douglas County, Colorado, appeared to have come to an end. In a local school board election that has found its way into the national debate over voucher programs, four anti-voucher candidates—Chris Schor, Kevin Leung, Anthony Graziano, and Krista Holtzmann—defeated reform-supporting candidates in a landslide.
The election was the culmination of a battle that goes back to 2009, when a group of conservative reform-minded candidates took full control of the school board in Douglas County—one of the wealthiest counties in the country, with a school district made up of 67,000 students. As Politico has put it, the county “has gone further than any district in the nation to reshape public education into a competitive, free-market enterprise.” Since 2009, the board has successfully ended a collective bargaining agreement with the local teachers union and enacted a “pay for performance” salary system for teachers.
Douglas County “has gone further than any district in the nation to reshape public education into a competitive, free-market enterprise.”
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Then Tuesday night saw anti-reform candidates decisively take all seven seats—four new members and three incumbents. Now the entire board is expected to be united in opposition to the voucher program and seems poised to drop the legal fight to implement it.
An end to the case would serve as a setback for those who were counting on the Douglas County case to be the way that the Supreme Court could invalidate Blaine Amendments across the country. The state-level provisions have been long seen as a barrier to including religious schools in voucher programs, which Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has vocally supported in the past. After the narrowly-ruled Missouri case, DeVos lauded the Supreme Court’s decision: “We should all celebrate the fact that programs designed to help students will no longer be discriminated against by the government based solely on religious affiliation.”
“All of our Douglas County public school students are the winners tonight,” Holtzmann said in an election-night statement, according to the Douglas County News-Press. “Students at every school, students at every grade level and students with varying needs, all of them won tonight because our schools can now continue the return to excellence that began two years ago, after it became clear that reform had failed our children.”
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Separation of church and state. Public schools need to remain inclusive of any beliefs and non sectarian
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