THE REAL COST OF PURPOSEFULLY FAILED PUBLIC EDUCATION AT LAUSD - Perdaily.com

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THE REAL COST OF PURPOSEFULLY FAILED PUBLIC EDUCATION AT LAUSD

by Leonard Isenberg

(Mensaje se repite en Español)

(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

One problem that most progressive intellectuals seem incapable of understanding or factoring into their analysis of the decline and fall of the American Empire is that predominantly poor and/or minority filled public schools have been failing for so long now that there "graduates" no longer understand enough English to realize how clever these intellectuals are.

For the progressive intellectual it is a compelling and self-evident series of facts that we have gone from 380,000 people behind bars in 1978 to presently having 2.4 million. Add to this the fact that 60% of these inmates in the American prison industrial