Objections range from the basic «it's too long» and «it's too stressful» side of the spectrum to weightier concerns about teachers being forced to teach to the test, racial and socioeconomic inequities, and private
corporations taking over schools that, according to test results, are failing.
Not exact matches
The University of Calgary's
School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian
corporations actually do more
taking over than getting swallowed.
He's also seeking legislative support for the power to
take over entire
school corporations where failure has become quote - «systemic.»
So all a
corporation would have to do to
take over public
schools is find a cash starved
school district (or which there are many in Washington state) and make them an offer they can't refuse.
Bitter experience has shown that the self - anointed experts of NSP, NARE, NCEE, the New American
Schools Development
Corporation, the National Education Goals Panel, the Center on Student Learning, the Learning Research and Development Center, the National Alliance of Business, and others of their ilk have been exceedingly adept at eventually hijacking and
taking over all of the so - called «reform» efforts - if they haven't controlled them outright from the beginning.