The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education

The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education

Sacramento: poised to become ground zero of privatization

published by admin on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 11:07pm

Sacramento: poised to become ground zero of privatization
ParentsAcrossAmerica.org
See the report below from Kate Lenox of the Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education, a new affiliate of Parents Across America.
Sacramento parents and concerned citizens, please join their Facebook page, or email Kate for more info atklenox@earthlink.net:
The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education is a group of parents, teachers, and community members that has been fighting the privatization of public education here in Sacramento for eight years. We formed when the board of Sacramento City Unified School District voted to close Sacramento High School, the second oldest public high school west of the Mississippi, and give it to a charter operator to run.
That charter operator is St. HOPE, an organization formed by former NBA star Kevin Johnson, who is now our mayor and is engaged to Michelle Rhee. We believe that Sacramento is poised to become the ground zero of the privatization movement. Michelle Rhee is setting up her lobbying group Students First here in town. Democrats for Education Reform has set up a chapter here in California with Gloria Romero, failed candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction has the public face of the organization.