The Crumbling of Corporate School "Reform"
By Randy ShawIn the past month,
1. Los Angeles voters overwhelmingly rejected a billionaire-backed school board candidate seeking to shift control of the district to anti-union forces;
2. Thirty-five Atlanta educators, including a close ally of prominent "reformer" Michelle Rhee, were indicted for altering students' test scores;
3. Rhee, head of "Students First," was herself caught lying about being a "public school parent" after it was reported that one of her daughters attends an exclusive private school in Tennessee; and
4. Chicago parents came out in force against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan for massive school closures.
In addition, after writing about the extreme teachers union bashing in Netflix's "House of Cards" I learned that Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, is an investor in for-profit charter schools and donates to anti-teachers union causes. That's sure a lot of lies and self-dealing for a "reform" campaign. No wonder its failing to turn parents and the public against teachers unions.
There is further crumbling in the mountain of lies surrounding corporate-backed school