In 2009 I posted this article understanding that charter schools would have the pernicious effect of using identity, religious tribalism, race, class and gender to cement the popularity of the publicly subsidized and privately run ‘charters’ in the minds of a deracinated public that fails to think democratically or understand the role of education, how it is orchestrated, subsidized and basically how it is managed.
This is not surprising. Corporate press rarely covers school issues with any dignity or integrity other than to bash public schools for their ‘inadequacy’ while promoting privatization and educational financialization schemes.
The hucksters and hustlers who sold charters to an unsuspecting public did so using the ‘fear of competition’ but also, using an appeal to unenlightened self-interests — the alienated American looking backwards in evolution in an attempt to find some post-modern tribalism.
CBS reporter Leslie Stahl of CBS recently did an interview with Gulen, of Fethullah Gulen Charter Schools
CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS WEBSITE
CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
A compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tampering with admissions, grades, attendance and testing; misuse of funds and embezzlement; engaging in nepotism and conflicts of interest; engaging in complicated and shady real estate deals; and/or have been engaging in other questionable, unethical, borderline-legal, or illegal activities. This is also a record of charter school instability and other unsavory tidbits.
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