In this fine essay, Jan Resseger reviews Carol Burris’s article on the five reasons why charter schools cannot be effectively reformed or regulated.
The problems are a feature, not a bug.
Charter schools make their own rules about discipline. They are free from public oversight of their budget. Those considered most “successful” choose their own students. Many states ignore conflicts of interest and nepotism.
When public money is handed out without public scrutiny, abuse of that money is inevitable.
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Reading Jan’s post this morning put a little steel in my spine. It’s all stuff we know, but Jan distilled it into a succinct call to arms. (I seem to be full of clichés today, or full of something.)
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The rules and regulations of the charter industry are part of the bigger picture:
The US is no longer a democratic country. Latest studies declare that the United States is now classified as a oligarch and no longer classified as a democracy. The people of this country have lost their word and really only thing left is voting and that is corrupt also.
We all saw the writing on the wall when midget mike bloomberg was here in NYC for 12 years and casting his spells of hate on us all and using his money to tame our city and livlihoods.
Now today we cannot teach but rather baby sit all because of a country tht is now ruled by billionaires and no longer the free will of the people. NYC schools are loaded with cheap inexperienced people because the oligarchs want that and so now we all realize the true meaning of this country and the turn around most of us are experiencing who have been in this country for some time.
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Dear Reader who posts multiple times under different names:
I have not given up. Things looked bleaker in the 1920s and 1930s.
We are taking our country back.
The oligarchs will hide their heads in shame.
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Only if they are handed their heads on a platter.
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Charter schools were never about innovation or freedom. All of the claims along with rhetoric like “islands of opportunity” were marketing ploys designed to make charters appear new and exciting. Charters were the nose in the tent of public money, and now the whole camel is poised to eat our public institution. Charters started out as snowball, but now we see an avalanche lobbying groups, think tanks and foundations plotting to wrestle public money out of the hands of the public. The “portfolio model” is a shameless hostile takeover of public education in order to further enrich the already rich business and financial sector. Representatives in both parties are part of the problem, not the solution. They are working in tandem to enable the transfer of public funds into private hands. All the rhetoric is simply a smokescreen for mass privatization while the wealthy perfect their bait and switch.
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