Tribune: School board should be “fired” for saying no to charter school
Today’s Chicago Tribune editorial board fronts an attack on corporate reform’s next target: elected school boards.
Yep. The privatizers have decided that democratically-elected school boards just get in the way of “real reform” like privatization, expanding charter schools, and replacing experienced teachers with deer-in-the-headlights Teach for America kids.
PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson wrote about this in a recent Parents Across America blog post, referencing an article by Matt Miller called “First Kill All the School Boards” that argued that “local control has become a disaster for our schools.”
The Tribune calls for a “game change” in North Chicago, and wants the Illinois State Board of Education to “fire”
Yep. The privatizers have decided that democratically-elected school boards just get in the way of “real reform” like privatization, expanding charter schools, and replacing experienced teachers with deer-in-the-headlights Teach for America kids.
PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson wrote about this in a recent Parents Across America blog post, referencing an article by Matt Miller called “First Kill All the School Boards” that argued that “local control has become a disaster for our schools.”
The Tribune calls for a “game change” in North Chicago, and wants the Illinois State Board of Education to “fire”