Supposed Education Reformers Don’t Do Irony
Posted April 20, 2010 by thatsrightnateCategories: education reform
Tags: ALEC, education reform, Florida, Irony, New York, RTTT, SB6, Thomas Carroll, West Virginia
Following the #RTTT channel on Twitter, I’ve noticed that the neo-liberal education reformers who post on there seem terribly deficient in their ability to notice irony. Maybe that’s why so many people who seem intent on destroying the public education system as we know it and exacerbating the differences between the haves and have nots always have happy fuzzy bunny names like Education Equality Now or something. If you want to understand neo-liberal education reform, you have to follow the money and that means following it into dark alleys. There’s a reason that Goldman-Sachs has been so active in promoting this garbage. There’s a great deal of money at stake here if you know where to look.
New York: Some supporters of New York Charter schools have been fuming at the thought of an open discussion about charter schools. Instead they want to blindly raise the charter cap. In the New York Post today Thomas Carroll cried union conspiracy. I can’t help wondering if it’s his own misdeeds that have him scared. The main villain in this drama is State Senator Bill Perkins who has called for a public hearing. In the hearing notice he says, “The purpose of this hearing is to examine the business of charter schools by reviewing their development as a privatized solution to public education. Towards this end, we will hea