Lopsided Debate over Education Reform Reveals a Broken System
Alexander Russo has done an excellent job stirring the pot with his column yesterday asserting that "reform critics" like myself are "winning" the online debate.
As I tried to point out yesterday, the online debate is rather meaningless if the real decisions about our schools continue to be made based on misinformation, bribery and political gamesmanship. I believe the online debate has been deliberately ignored by the corporate reform sector, as they see it as a battle they can well afford to lose, given the access to real power their funds buy them.
We succeeded in breaking through a bit last year with Save Our Schools, and saw some attacks on us as a result. But fundamentally, what the lopsided online discussion reveals is a broken political system that has lost