Inspired by Mercedes Schneider’s monumental documentation of the “reform” movement, A Chronicle of Echoes, Stuart Egan determined to compile a definitive guide to the privatization movement in North Carolina.
You will find many familiar names, some of them clearly rightwing, others pretending to be “Democrats.”
You will find Michelle Rhee, giving advice to the Tea Party legislature (bet you thought she had disappeared).
You will run into DFER, pretending to be Democrats.
You will encounter TFA, the Broad Foundation, the Gates Foundation, ALEC, the Walton Family Foundation, 50CAN, and many other familiar names.
The national “reform” movement has landed in North Carolina and found their perfect partners: the Tea Party.
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I posted a link directly to the article. https://caffeinatedrage.com/2018/02/13/the-privatization-of-north-carolinas-public-schools-a-whos-who/
with this comment , which has embedded links to posts here:
Retired teacher of physics and math Tom Ultican gathered together a concise summary of the efforts to destroy and privatize public education.
“America’s public education system is being deliberately destroyed. If you graduated from high school in the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s or 80’s, it is such an unthinkable concept that it is difficult to even imagine. Not only is it possible, it is happening and a lot of damage has already occurred.
Here is part 1 of Carol’s gripping story of the attack on public education in Indiana.
Look at Oklahoma education ‘reformers’; they don’t like democracy. They don’t like elected school boards. They think the private sector knows best.In Oklahoma City,a member of the City Council has proposed turning the entire school district-the state’s largest–over to the city, which can then convert it to an all-charter district. The heart of the matter is to eliminate the elected school board and turn the reins of the district over to the business leaders and entrepreneurs.
across the nation… our schools are handed over to business.
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And these deformers actually spout, “We care about our young.” The deformers care about their perks, power, and $$$$$.
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they might need to change their mantra to “we care about our young’s educational tax money”
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The goal of ALEC’s model of privatize everything private and milk the public dollar dry is to take over one state at a time or maybe more than one state at a time until they OWN the entire U.S. and the U.S. Constitution is meaningless.
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“and the U.S. Constitution is meaningless.”
Don’t worry the Koch Bros and DeVoses have a document in mind to replace it. . . .
. . . the xtian bible.
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