Commentary: Understanding privatization - What Thomas Knudsen doesn't get | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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Commentary: Understanding privatization - What Thomas Knudsen doesn't get

by Ron Whitehorne

Thomas Knudsen says critics who talk about privatization have it wrong. Speaking at the School Reform Commission community budget hearing at Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School last week, the chief recovery officer said, “for-profit businesses will not be running schools. This is not about privatizing schools.”
SRC Chair Pedro Ramos chimed in, disputing that accelerating the growth of charters represents privatization,