“North Carolina’s children can’t afford legislators who take their cue from fairy tales. They need lawmakers who want public schools to succeed and will develop policies to help build up the schools, not tear them down.” Take time to read the entire editorial!
Posts in category Privatization
The Big Business of Vouchers in Wiscons...
“In a new report, entitled “P is for Payoff: Inside the Bradley Foundation’s Campaign to Privatize Education in Wisconsin,” the non-profit activist group One Wisconsin Now has detailed the Bradley Foundation’s funding of a coordinated campaign to promote school privatization in Wisconsin and across the nation. The report “reveals a web of right-wing groups are […]
Education is Not Like Toothpas...
As the policy debates over education “reform” continue, some of the key underlying issues – competing worldviews – are starting to emerge clearly. The first public introduction, last July, of Governor Snyder’s[Michigan’s governor] advisory panel on the school funding law provided one perspective (see upcoming article). They view their charge as making sure money follows […]
Can Public Education as We Know it Surviv...
Americans are now confronted with two radically different visions of public education. Which vision ultimately prevails will go a long way toward determining the quality of the education available to future generations of children. The first — call it the “private” — vision can be seen in the well-funded efforts in states and localities across […]