Monday, November 29, 2010

Schools Matter: Will Citizens of All Political Stripes Coalesce Against the Billionaire Boys' Club?

Schools Matter: Will Citizens of All Political Stripes Coalesce Against the Billionaire Boys' Club?

Will Citizens of All Political Stripes Coalesce Against the Billionaire Boys' Club?

For many Democrats and Republicans (at least the ones that Diane Ravitch likes to remember), the intrusion of the federal government into state and local education issues has been an acceptable burden to bear, since it was only the Federal government that could guarantee the enforcement of civil rights laws. In fact, ESEA was enacted in 1965 as the carrot for Southern states to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which the apartheid South considered a big stick.

Now, the federal government under the direction of the modern day efficiency experts of the corporate foundations, incentivizes states to create segregative charter schools and ignores the goals of integrated and democratic living as a primary purpose of the public schools. In short, there is no longer any reason for