From Politico Morning Education:
PUERTO RICO SCHOOL CLOSURES DEBATE HEATS UP: School closures will move ahead in Puerto Rico as tensions between the territory’s Education Department and teachers union escalate. Earlier this week, the Tribunal Supremo of Puerto Rico ruled that a plan to close dozens of schools in Puerto Rico does not “directly and substantially interfere with the right to an education,” el Vocero de Puerto Rico reports.
— Officials there celebrated the victory, even as teachers unions and civil rights advocates continue to oppose the plan. The Puerto Rican civil rights commission this week called for a one-year moratorium on the closures, calling the process “disorganized” and “directionless,” according to El Nuevo Dia. Education Secretary Julia Keleher issued a statement in response, saying that “the process was based on data … and responded to the urgent need to address the consistent decline in school enrollment.”
— The ruling only exacerbated tensions between Keleher and the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, the largest teachers union in the island. During a press conference earlier this week, union President Aida Díaz decried the ruling as harmful to displaced students and teachers, and called Keleher “machiavellian.”
Would Puerto Rico be a nice destination for recruits from TFA? Especially if they don’t have to be there for the hot summer months.
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They’ll close and gut public schools while showering funds and attention on charters.
It’s the ed reform playbook. As for the children who remain in public schools? Oh, well. They’re just the collateral damage. Onward, towards the ideological north star!
The public schools in Puerto Rico will be as neglected and ignored as the public schools in the states.
One NW Ohio columnist calls charters “the darlings” of politicians and other bigwigs and it’s true. They clearly prefer privatized schools and it shows in everything they do and say.
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Ed reformers put in Common Core, then lost interest, moved on to the next grand plan and invested nothing in supporting it. In fact, they put in Common Core and continued to cut funding to public schools.
Predictably, Common Core isn’t turning out well.
Also predictably, ed reformers are blaming teachers:
https://www.the74million.org/article/new-study-of-common-core-reading-standards-finds-teachers-arent-giving-students-appropriately-challenging-texts/
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There is nothing charters like more than a natural disaster. What better excuse to destroy than destruction?
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As tho Puerto Rico hasn’t been dumped on enough! Despicable.
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You are right, Nan, DESPICABLE.
Profits for the few again. The citizens of this country is being robbed in plain daylight.
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