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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Schools Matter: Ohio's White Hat Charter School Protection Act

Schools Matter: Ohio's White Hat Charter School Protection Act

Ohio's White Hat Charter School Protection Act

If you want to see what it looks and smells like when the corporate feeding frenzy begins in earnest on chunks of the three-quarters of a trillion dollars Americans spend on education every year, look no further than Ohio, where industrialist and ed exploitation artist, David Brennan, has bought sponsorship ofhis own bill to assure protection for his profitable charter racket, which has an unprecedented record of low performance that would have the corporate ed reformers screaming for blood if a public school had engaged in the level of corruption and ineptitude that Brennan represents.

From the Post-Dispatch:

Majority House Republicans proposed sweeping changes to state charter-school law that would make Ohio the only state in the nation to allow for-profit charter schools with no sponsors, but no one is rushing to take credit for the revolutionary plan.
More of the state's biggest school-choice supporters sharply criticized the plan yesterday. It was