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Friday, July 8, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The failure of austerity disguised as "school reform"

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The failure of austerity disguised as "school reform"

The failure of austerity disguised as "school reform"

The latest dismal job figures, in an indirect way, demonstrate the grand failure of the current so-called school reform which is based largely on austerity, rather than real, substantial school improvement. While there is continued job growth in the private sector, particularly in manufacturing, public sector jobs are disappearing by the hundreds of thousands.

While they didn't cause the