Schools As Public Institutions Is Just So Old School
The move to privatize public education is in full swing and there are many out there stepping on the gas. We have covered the issue of making money off the public sector through the charter system many times in this blog. It unfortunately does enjoy bi-partisan support so we get little attention from our legislators when we balk at things like charter schools and parent triggers. Such tools appear to embrace free market solutions which satisfies those who believe the free market can fix anything. It ignores the fact that the education market will never be free because the government has a vested interest in controlling how future voters are educated. Such tools appeal to the conservative right because they appear to put the parent back in the equation for raising children and that is a position parents have not held for a couple decades now. But these tools offer false choices and bring people, who do not have education in the forefront of their thinking, into the system that provides education.
An interview on CNBC's Street Signs demonstrates, with painful clarity, that the focus of charter schools has
An interview on CNBC's Street Signs demonstrates, with painful clarity, that the focus of charter schools has