The Weekly Update: Eli Broad’s how-to guide on closing schools and disaster capitalism up close and personal
This has been a ghastly and heart wrenching week in education around the country but particularly in Philadelphia and Chicago where hundreds of schools are slated for closing.
The dream of a charter school in every pot, or rather every community, is coming to past for Eli Broad and his ilk. Just close the public schools and open up charter schools. Mission Accomplished. Squeeze out the funding for public schools, grade schools with an A through F, label schools as failing and voila! You have closed as many public schools as necessary to keep those charter schools afloat. But unfortunately, the reality is much different. Communities lose their anchor when the public school closes,
