Not exact matches
While initially operating most of these
schools itself out of necessity, the RSD began systematically
replacing direct -
run schools with
charters.
WHEREAS, the billionaires funding Students First and Democrats for Education Reform are supporting candidates and local programs that would dismantle a free public education for every student in California and
replace it with company
run charter schools, non-credentialed teachers and unproven untested so - called «reforms»;
The plan also embraces the federal emphasis on
replacing staff at «failing»
schools and converting some to independently
run charter schools, most of which are non-union.
The teacher unions are
running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine
School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enroll
School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to
replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when
charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enroll
school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public
schools their children are enrolled in.
In Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Newark and elsewhere, officials, often backed by outside billionaires, have waged identical campaigns of destruction: disinvesting in community
schools while funding and promoting privately
run charter schools, declaring underfunded community
schools «failures,» closing them and
replacing them with more
charters.
Parents are seeking to
replace McKinley Elementary with a
charter school run by the Celerity Educational Group.
For education, technology and
charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public
schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public
school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (
replacing teachers with computers,
replacing public
schools with privately
run charter schools, etc.).
Local journalist and blogger Bob Braun took that analysis further, writing at his blog, «Baraka's victory repudiated the policies not just of his rival, Shavar Jeffries, but those of Gov. Chris Christie, former Mayor Cory Booker, and state - appointed superintendent Cami Anderson who is trying to close neighborhood public
schools and
replace them with privately
run charter schools.»
During the past year, Wisconsin state legislators debated a series of bills aimed at closing low - performing public
schools and
replacing them with privately
run charter schools.
But the Orleans Parish
School Board fired all of its teachers following the storm, and the
charter and state -
run schools that
replaced the old district relied heavily upon programs such as Teach For America to hire new teachers.