A Public Challenge to Privatizing Schools
This week’s guestperspective comes from Bill Conway—Wisconsin’s 2009-2010 PTA Teacher of the Year.Conway is a veteran social studies teacher at Parker High Schoolin Janesville, WI.
It sent chills down my spine to read how this privateorganization came to a school board meeting with a plan that only required avote to move public education to the private sector. With one simpleargument—cutting the costs per student from $11,000 per student to $7,000—all otherdebates seemed lost.
I read recently, with greatconcern, a JanesvilleGazette article about a private organization from Florida offering to keeptwo rural Wisconsin elementary schools open at a fraction of the currentoperating costs.
