Angie Sullivan teaches in a Title 1 school in Clark County, Nevada. Her emails go to every legislator in the state.
She wrote:
So I was wrong.
Nevada Charters are NOT only about white flight.
My bad.
They are also about getting away from language learners.
And special education students.
But it seems they are primarily about serving rich folks.
Nevada Charters so white.
Nevada Charters so rich.
In a class, a charter leader once told me – we want to get away from riff-raff. Wonder what he meant by riff-raff? I left that class and did not return – I was offended so badly.
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What top-rated charter schools have in common: fewer poor kids
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Nevada Charters do not take their share of poor students, ELL students, or IEP students.
Bragging about their stars seems kind of lame if they get there by excluding kids who traditionally do not score well.
Is that fair?
Is “choice” about leaving some kids behind so a for-profit corporation can brag about stars – what the Nevada tax payer wants?
Five star choice in a five star public school neighborhood seems redundant. It is also profitable to siphon money and obtain high value real estate. Both have been investigated in other states – when Academica is involved.
Who is making cash serving students who already have greater access and “choice” than others?
Who is harmed when money lines a corporations’ pocket?
This is privatization.
Making money doing the least amount of heavy lift.
And it is lazy too.
Nevada Charters so lazy.
Keep on bragging Nevada Charters. And I will be on the look out for someone to tell me the real story about “testing” too.
Probably why Nevada Charters did not have data for thirty years. Now we can see what is really happening.
Plus the charter receiverships and bankruptcies – bleeding us dry.
Legislators who own, sit on boards, manage, or work in charters have some serious explaining to do. Their votes during sessions are unethical if they work for a for-profit corporation.
And I’m looking at the Attorney General too.
What is going on?
This is a mess.
They are not going to clean it up unless forced.
The Teacher,
Angie
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There’s a systemic effect to that too, although ed reformers choose to ignore any of the systemic effects of charter schools on public schools because public schools aren’t considered at all when ed reformers are busy privatizing.
If there are X numbers of public school students and charters deliberately enroll students who perform better on state tests, that leaves public schools with a smaller share of the total who perform better on state tests, thereby lowering the possible score for the public school.
This effect was planned for and is admitted when they introduce selective magnet public schools into districts, but charter supporters simply don’t address it, hoping no one will notice or care, because who cares about public schools, right? Not them!
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Charters are about Jim Crow.
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What is happening in Nevada is an expression of racism and blatant discrimination against classified students. What is even more appalling is that public tax dollars are being used to “red line” students. This is a shameful misuse of public money in a democratic republic. When public schools were established, they were meant to serve all students, not create a discriminatory tiered system of access.
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“…public tax dollars are being used to “red line” students…” : if only we would begin to see this exact wording start to headline our news
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“In a class, a charter leader once told me – we want to get away from riff-raff.”
Donald Trump calls countries that have what he thinks are riff-raff populations, “Shithole countries.”
And while he says this, he is doing everything he can to turn the United States into a real shithole country.
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I have lived in one of the poorest nations on earth. Could you please me more specific, as to what the president is currently doing to the USA, to turn our nation into a third-world nation? I am interested in what you have to say.
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If DT achieves his obvious goals, then the US will be worse than a 3rd world country. Make a list of what he has done and not what he has claimed he is doing and you will discover what I’m talking about.
An un-flushed turd floating in a toilet has more morals and empathy than Psycho DT.
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I’ll add to this. Charters are a perfect example of what’s happening. We are becoming a country of haves and have nots, with some very rich people, and a whole lot of very poor people who receive no support. (And one party controlling all three branches of government, eliminating checks and balances.) Third world, more and more by the day.
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Charles, under Trump and the GOP, the US will become worse than a 3rd world country. It will become a kleptocracy where the rich and powerful are allowed to legally steel from everyone else.
Countries that are kleptocracies are:
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
Iran …
The US is moving fast to join that list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
The United States is international kleptocrats’ favoured jurisdiction for laundering money. In a 2011 forensic study of grand corruption cases, the World Bank found the United States was the leading jurisdiction of incorporation for entities involved in money laundering schemes. The Department of Treasury estimates that $300 billion is laundered annually in the United States.
In addition, the current president of the US kept his family businesses alive by laundering money for the Russian mob.
This kleptocratic financial system flourishes in the United States for three reasons.
First, the absence of a beneficial ownership registry means that it is the easiest country in the world in which to conceal the ownership of a company. The United States produces more than 2 million corporate entities a year, and 10 times more shell companies than 41 other countries identified as tax havens combined. It currently takes more information to obtain a library card than to form a US company. …
Currently, there are only around 1,200 money laundering convictions per year in the United States and money launderers face a less than five percent chance of conviction. Raymond Baker estimates that law enforcement fails in 99.9% of cases to detect money laundering by kleptocrats and other financial criminals.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-trump-first-year-success-best-20171227-story.html
The Pres has accomplished many things in his term. The most important feat of all, is that he defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, and put an end to Clintonism.
He appointed and got Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmed.
He has directed a masterful economic recovery, with the lowest unemployment rate for blacks and Hispanics, since the government has been keeping records.
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Charles, your ignorance is so vast that it can’t be measured. It would be easier to measure the size of the expanding universe.
Trump did NOT, and does not deserve credit for “directing a masterful economic recovery, with the lowest unemployment rate for blacks and Hispanics, since the government has been keeping records.”
First: what is happening in the economy today was predicted in 2015.
Reported on January 26, 2015: “The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025”
“Under current law, the deficit is projected to hold steady as a percentage of GDP through 2018, but rise thereafter, raising the already high federal debt. The rate of economic growth is projected to be solid in 2015 and the next few years.”
This was reported long before Trump was elected and then won the election through the Electoral College (not the popular vote) and cut taxes mostly for the wealthiest Americans and increased spending adding more than a trillion to the national debt so the long range predictions made in 2015 will probably end up being an economic collapse long before 2025 rolls around.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49892
Second: When Obama took office, he inherited a 7.8 percent unemployment rate that grew to 10 percent before he submitted his first budget to Congress.
When Obama left office, unemployment was down to 4.9 percent. When copmapred to the the beginning of his first budget in Novemeer 2009, that waws an improvement of 5.1 percent.
Trump has been in office almost two years and in that time unemployment has only improved by 1.2 percent.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
The New York Times reports: “White House Falsely Claims Trump Has Created More Jobs for Black Americans Than Obama Did.” …
“According to the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 708,000 more black Americans had jobs in July than in January 2017, the month Mr. Trump took office.
“By contrast, the same data show, the economy added about three million jobs for black Americans between January 2009 and January 2017, during Mr. Obama’s presidency.
“Mr. Obama took office at the height of the Great Recession, when the unemployment rate for black Americans was 12.7 percent. It increased to almost 17 percent, in March 2010, and then fell to 7.8 percent by January 2017, Mr. Obama’s last month in office.
“The black unemployment rate has continued to fall under Mr. Trump and was 6.6 percent in July.”
Charles, I think you get your information from the same sources that Trump does and that’s probably why Trump is a serial liar. When liars believe other liars, that does not equal the truth.
When Trump makes a claim of any kind, instead of swallowing that misleading bile without question. do the homework necessary to find the actual facts.
BLS.com is where everyone goes to find the facts. BLS.com is the primary source for these facts — not Trump’s mouth, Twitter fingers or the fake news Trump eats with his fast food McDonald’s breakfast.
https://www.bls.gov/
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Everything is just fine. If you’re Jeff Bezos.
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