Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, reports the heartening news that support for school choice has declined in the latest poll by EdNext. EdNext is a pro-choice journal funded by the Hoover Institution and of there pro-choice organizations and individuals.
Support for Charters and Vouchers Has Dropped
Despite the myth that the pandemic resulted in an increased appetite for privatized alternatives to public schools, the opposite is true, according to a new poll just published by EdNext. Support for both charter schools and vouchers is down by substantial amounts. Only 33% of all Democrats now support charter schools–that’s an all-time low. Less than half of all Americans (41%) now support them. Your constant advocacy for public schools and against privatized alternatives is paying off.
Democrats are beginning to see the pattern in the rug: Whatever is being pushed by Betsy DeVos, Charles Koch, the Walton family, and every rightwing foundation is not in the public interest.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
About TIME.
And after all that HARM, too … AGREE with: “Whatever is being pushed by Betsy DeVos, Charles Koch, the Walton family, and every rightwing foundation is not in the public interest.”
Amen! (and let’s not forget Duncan, Gates, and numerous other head in the ground plutocrats and their lackeys)
“not in the public interest”- liberal Democrats and liberal media giving cover to conservative Catholic politicking including deliberate blindness to state Catholic Conferences co-hosting school choice rallies with the Koch’s AFP.
Evangelicals wouldn’t have achieved their political successes without their partners in the Catholic hierarchy who relied on the public’s misunderstanding based on the Church’s short-lived ecumenical period and its high profile liberal members. The hierarchy also stoked a tribalist response whenever opposition to their anti-democracy, public policy agendas arose.
Check out KathyIrwin1’s comment posted in the thread for “Bishop Sycamore…”
It is unfortunate that so many people continue to believe that standardized testing has value. Diagnostic testing and other formative assessments often provide lots of value, but not standardized testings with its ratings, rankings and ultimate shame for struggling students.
I think of the words of Carl Sagan which go something like this: The longer the bamboozle goes on, the less people will be able to see it as a bamboozle.
Testing doesn’t get the same publicity as do charters. The ad campaigns for the NCLB and Common Core, overblown as they were, weren’t as sensational as the ad campaign for privatization. And while Bernie, Elizabeth, and Joe made charter schools part of the conversation in 2020, testing was kept more low key. Ultimately, I am led to believe the monetary value of testing data is better kept insulated from criticism by tech CEOs than is the value of charter schools by hedge fund managers.
The author, Don Winslow, a political activist against Trump’s agenda, recently posted a video that was, in its first 10 hrs. on Twitter alone, seen by 1.1 mil. people.
The video’s focus is, in part, on Republican hypocrisy.
Those who think that the woman-hating, conservative religious will stop after outlawing abortions (even in cases of incest and rape) are morons. The next step is outlawing birth control and creating bounty hunters to turn in women who use any method other than rhythm which fails 25% of the time.