Response to transformation plan: 'End to public education'
The Occupy Philly Labor Work Group, of which I am a member, drafted the following statement on the proposed transformation plan for the School District of Philadelphia.
The Knudsen Plan – The End of the Promise of Public Education
“Grow up and deal with it.” Mayor Michael Nutter’s response to critics of the School Transformation Plan.
The fate of public education in Philadelphia just got darker if this plan is adopted. Bare-bones school budgets will continue for the foreseeable future. Forty schools will close in the next year while charters will continue rapid growth. More than 2,500 blue collar, union jobs will be outsourced to the lowest bidder. The School District central administration will be further down sized with supervision of schools farmed out to private contractors. Our school system has been turned over to high-priced consultants and turnaround specialists as if it was a bankrupt airline.
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The Knudsen Plan – The End of the Promise of Public Education
“Grow up and deal with it.” Mayor Michael Nutter’s response to critics of the School Transformation Plan.
The fate of public education in Philadelphia just got darker if this plan is adopted. Bare-bones school budgets will continue for the foreseeable future. Forty schools will close in the next year while charters will continue rapid growth. More than 2,500 blue collar, union jobs will be outsourced to the lowest bidder. The School District central administration will be further down sized with supervision of schools farmed out to private contractors. Our school system has been turned over to high-priced consultants and turnaround specialists as if it was a bankrupt airline.
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