Why should taxpayers subsidize corporations that buy and sell schools to one another as one fails and the other picks up the offloaded franchise?
Vote them all out of office in November!
Reader Chiara wrote:
“By June of this year, White Hat’s once prolific presence in Ohio had shriveled to a single online school — Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA) — and 10 “Life Skills” centers, which deliver computer-based GED courses to academically faltering teens and young adults.
Virginia-based Accel Schools, which is amassing an education empire the likes of which hasn’t been seen since White Hat dominated the Ohio landscape, has bought out the contract for OHDELA.
Utah-based Fusion Education Group (FusionED) is taking over contracts for seven of the Life Skills centers, including the North Akron branch in a Chapel Hill storefront at 1458 Brittain Road.
Life Skills Northeast Ohio on Larchmere Boulevard in Cleveland has hired Oakmont Education LLC, a company associated with Cambridge Education Group. White Hat could find no buyer for the last two centers, which will close at 4600 Carnegie Ave. in Cleveland and 3405 Market St. in Youngstown.
Information on White Hat’s off-loading of assets came via the schools’ sponsors: the Ohio Council of Community Schools, which oversaw OHDELA and two Life Skills schools, and St. Aloysius Orphanage, a Cincinnati social service provider. ”
This is what privatization looks like. These schools are 100% taxpayer-funded yet they’re being bought and sold by private entities.
All they’re doing is replacing one garbage contractor with others.
Ohio needs to clean house of state-level politicians and get some new people in there.
This situation will not improve until we break the stranglehold these contractors and their lobbyists have on state government.
Old wine, new bottles.
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The only way to stop this Christian nationalist and/or Capitalist greed fueled frenzy to destroy the United States and its public education system is to vote out every Republican (state and federal) and 75% of Democrats and replace them all with Justice Democrats and/or Democratic socialists.
don’t forget the “DFER” groups — we have one in MA — Seth Moulton — he. may know a good deal about how to run military efforts but he needs to learn more about public education before he aims for a higher office.
As terrible as Republicans are, and they certainly are, Corporate Democrats are not much better:
Democrats for Education Reform Think Being Progressive Means Mirroring Betsy DeVos | gadflyonthewallblog
https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2018/08/09/democrats-for-education-reform-think-being-progressive-means-mirroring-betsy-devos/
You must have missed this one, Ed.
“A far-left shift in the Democratic Party was on full display Saturday (April 18, 2018), as delegates met in Broomfield for their state assembly.
“It was time travel to an era in which Democrats held union leaders above the working class, poor, immigrants, and minorities.
“The party eliminated any question of this reversion when delegates told Democrats for Education Reform to get lost. They overwhelmingly passed a resolution ordering the group to stop using ‘Democrats’ as part of their name. The vote makes rejection of school choice a core of the party’s platform.
“Delegates booed Democrats for Education Reform Director Jennifer Walmer so loudly she became emotional, stopping her speech and begging permission to continue.
“State Sen. Michael Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs, and a few others emboldened this behavior with a November letter to Democratic Party Chair Morgan Carroll. It asked her to send a cease-and-desist demand to Democrats for Education Reform. Merrifield wrote in 2007 ‘there must be a special place in Hell’ for school choice advocates.”
https://gazette.com/opinion/editorial-democrats-roll-back-time-soundly-rejecting-school-choice/article_7ddb56bf-06f8-577f-8b5f-a3bc3e1ecc66.html
The Gazette editorial board Opinion piece clearly is on the side of school choice. All you have to do is read the last paragraph, but it seems the Colorado Democratic Party is shifting direction. Will the national Democratic Party sit up and take notice?
The public gets to pay twice when a public asset is placed in the hands of a private entity. It is a form of public theft.
Wine improves with age. Buying, selling, and rebranding charters is more like old milk in new bottles – odious, curdled, and with the right enzymes, downright cheesy (like my analogy).
Not that cheesy. Pretty (good) disgusting metaphor.
there were trucks hauling gasoline east to west and then milk or orange juice west to east and a driver (whistle blower) lost the job for complaining (If I remember correctly). so it is like that process…
you are also attacking women here because only women are “shrill” or “Screaming”. or “too harsh and strident” and the man’s voice (tone) would not be viewed in the same light. I am just furious with you Harlan for doing this. I was asking for assistance from the knowledgable people here who could help me explain when I do campaign work and knock on doors. I will stand on this ; it will suffice — so don’t bother to write me any more responses or replies.
“With its raft of corporate donors and the massive Walton-family endowment, TFA would never fit in comfortably with an American liberalism moving in the direction of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.”
And as far as your speculation about who will run in 2020 , I am just not that interested, Harlan.
we’ve been working daily with E. Warren’s campaign in MA. Someone had said to me that Elizabeth Warren might have too much persuasion from the Teach for America group….. So I tried to check it out as best I could and I put a query into our regional field person for Merrimack Valley.
Democrats do have a serious talent gap for 2020. The Screaming Pocahontas is just as unattractive as HRC.
…and you need to go somewhere where your insults are recognized as great thoughts.
Trump has repeatedly belittled Warren as “Pocahontas.” But Trump has a history of repeatedly belittling women revealing more about him than Senator Warren.
“The Screaming Pocahontas is just as unattractive as HRC.” If Harlan admits the previous quote is his, he paints himself as a Trump-style racist and troll that also has contempt for women or girls. In other words, another misogynist.
“Is Warren part Native American?”
Good question, I shout, “Who cares!?!?”
“Warren says, yes, she is, and points to ‘family stories’ passed down to her through generations as evidence.
“I am very proud of my heritage,” Warren told NPR in 2012. “These are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mammaw and my pappaw. This is our lives. And I’m very proud of it.”
In that account and others, a genealogist traced Warren’s Native American heritage to the late 19th century, which, if true, would make her 1/32 Native American.”
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american-pocahontas/index.html
Senator Warren being 1/32 Native American has nothing to do with who she is today.
For instance, my mother was born in Deadwood, and her mother’s birth-family name is of Souix origin. Does that mean my grandmother was Sioux or part Sioux?
Since I have no family stories when I was growing up about being part Sioux because of my grandmother, I don’t know. I haven’t had a DNA test yet. But why should I spend that money? It isn’t going to change who I grew up to become in this age.
My mother’s father molested my mother when she was still living in Deadwood, so she ran away from home and crossed the country to the west coast at age 14 where she supported herself as a waitress.
My mother’s father also belonged to the KKK.
On my father’s side, I’ve learned that there is a Lord Lofthouse in the UK with a town called Lofthouse near the family’s manor. The Lofthouse title goes back to the reign of Alfred the Great when a Lofthouse was one of his bodyguards who saved the kings life in battle and was rewarded with a title by the king.
What does that reveal about me as an individual?
Am I part native American?
Do I have English royal blood in my body?
Since the grandfather I never knew, who abused and molested my mother, belonged to the KKK, does that make me a racist and child molester too?
Am I related to that bodyguard that allegedly saved the life of Alfred the Great who lived more than 1,000 years ago?
I can’t prove it. I don’t care. I’m sure Senator Warren doesn’t care that you think she is “as unattractive as HRC”.
Almost three million voters that gave the popular vote to HRC also do not care what you, and others like you, think about HRC.
please don’t take my words to attack Elizabeth. That was NOT my intention. I am looking to work with her staff and team. Your insult also affects ME……. I am so angry at you for doing this to ME. I have Native American parentage from the 1600s in MA that cannot be found because records were not kept….. they were not written down because the women were not church members. I have stated this before on D. R.’s page and if this kind of attack continues from you Harlan, I am going to just withdraw from any participation here any more. I take this comment PERSONALLY as an attack on ME!
yes, yes and YES. And please do not stop posting.