Orwellian Language Again: Info-Graphic Answers Your Questions about Democrats for Education Reform
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| Democrats (In Name Only) for Education Reform |
It has perhaps slipped your mind, but beginning Sunday afternoon and ending this morning, a group of New York hedge fund managers and charter school supporters has been meeting atCamp Philos in a retreat center at Lake Placid, in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. The honorary chair of this event was Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York. Governor Cuomo is not only the man who went before an Albany rally this spring to proclaim, “We will save charter schools,” but also the man who, we discovered later, worked behind the sceneswith supporters of a well connected New York City charter school network to stage the rally.
Billy Easton is the executive director of New York’s Alliance for Quality Education, a large statewide coalition of organizations that has been working hard for over a decade to help ensure that New York’s public schools are adequately funded. AQE, as the organization refers to itself, has worked assiduously to ensure that New York lives up to the commitments made in response to a statewide school funding lawsuit, Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York, only to be disappointed repeatedly by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been more interested in cutting taxes and supporting charter schools.
According to Easton in a recent commentary published at Gotham Gazette, “While backers of the corporate school agenda are proclaiming Cuomo as a conquering hero, public school parents around the state are protesting against him. His policies have systematically forced classroom cuts every year he has been in office and have promoted a damaging culture of Orwellian Language Again: Info-Graphic Answers Your Questions about Democrats for Education Reform | janresseger: