What to Cut in Schools During the Depression, and It Ain't Libraries
Rather than accepting the cheap RTTT bribes inspired by Gates and Broad to bust up public education even further, states need to gird their loins, make some tough decisions, and hunker down.
By Joanne Yatvin
The job of destroying America's public schools, left unfinished by No Child Left Behind, has now been taken over by our economic recession.
In nearly every state, teacher layoffs, a shortened school year, class-size increases and elimination of vital parts of the school curriculum are in progress, So far, Congress has failed to respond. Apparently our public schools, unlike Wall Street banks, are not "too big to fail." Ironically, the business community, the leading advocate of school reform in recent years, remains silent.
