Legislative Action Alert: Grading schools, closing schools and converting them into charter schools: SB5328 and SB5329 | Seattle Education

Legislative Action Alert: Grading schools, closing schools and converting them into charter schools: SB5328 and SB5329 | Seattle Education:

Legislative Action Alert: Grading schools, closing schools and converting them into charter schools: SB5328 and SB5329

by seattleducation2011

This is a one item agenda, grading schools, then transforming the schools with the lowest test scores into charter schools or closing them and providing the option of…a charter school or a public school outside of the student’s neighborhood. If you don’t understand the devastation that starts with high stakes testing and ends with school closings, check out the recent weekly update, The Weekly Update: Eli Broad’s how-to guide on closing schools and disaster capitalism up close and personal.

Stand for Children, with their bought and paid for representative State Senator Steve Litzow, and the League of Education Voters have pushed through two bills in the