After Elizabeth Warren released her bold K-12 education plan, with massive funding increases for poor students (Title1) and for students with disabilities, the charter lobby reacted with outrage because she also announced that she would eliminate the federal Charter Schools Program. The CSP has been not only wasteful and ineffective but has been used by Betsy DeVos as her personal slush fund, to reward corporate charter chains and charter advocacy organizations.
Carol Burris and Kevin Welner explain here why Warren’s plan would benefit all needy students, including those enrolled in charter schools. Educators should welcome her plan, whether they are in public schools or charter schools.
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“Carol Burris and Kevin Welner explain here why Warren’s plan would benefit all needy students, including those enrolled in charter schools. Educators should welcome her plan, whether they are in public schools or charter schools.”
Bravo! Imagine that- people who actually discuss federal policy as it relates to PUBLIC schools 🙂
Maybe we could hire one or two in government? Unimaginable I know but it’s been 20 years. Seems like it’s past time to allow someone outside the charter and voucher lobby to speak.
hardhitting words: it’s been 20 years….
That charter supporters are attacking Warren’s plan, a plan that would HUGELY benefit students in charter schools just like it benefits students in public schools, leads me to question whether this is about students at all. Charter or public.
They’d rather deny funding for all students rather than give up dedicated federal funding for new charters. THAT should raise real questions. This is a bizarre trade off. It only makes sense within an ideological, zealously pro-expansion of charters frame.
The actual students go under the bus when the broader privatization agenda isn’t advanced. Hmmm. That’s odd.
… MESA employs three executives — a CEO, a principal, and an assistant principal — with total compensation packages of over a half-million dollars as of 2017, for a school with only 466 students, the same forms show.”
Sounds like the poor are not the only people helped by this school.
The Catholic League disparaged Warren’s education plan as harmful to the poor.
Which is the path forward?
Supporters of public education face churches with an attitude and behavior matched to the image of John F. Kennedy’s politically benign church? Or, do they match attitude and behavior to a different church- a politically driven theocracy aligned with Charles Koch’s oligarchy and Tom Monaghan’s Ave Maria?
The head of the Knights of Columbus was a legislative aide to Sen. Jesse Helms and, he is on the board of Catholic University of America which gave Charles Koch, a hero’s welcome. Another CUA board member is part of the Napa Institute which has an associated legal team available for separation of church and state court cases to aid in a win for church.