EdNext and the “Promise” of “Charter Choice”–But Let’s Not Mention the FBI
I have written a couple of posts of late regarding the results of Education Next’s 2014 public opinion survey, especially as concerns EdNext’s and its editor-in-chief Paul Peterson’s attempts to sell the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to a public that is only half aware of CCSS– and with the half who are aware increasingly rejecting those “common standards in English and math.”
(The New York Times will be sponsoring a CCSS debate on September 9, 2014. It has entitled its debate, “Embrace the Common Core,” and yet its own polling result shows overwhelming rejection of CCSS. As of this writing, the survey has approximately 41,500 responses– 89 percent of which are cast against CCSS. Apparently America is not too keen on the NYT-encouraged CCSS “”embrace.”)
Given the length of the EdNext survey, I have chosen to examine it– and Peterson’s cultivation of the education-privatization message– in a number of separate posts.
In this post, I take on the EdNext fostering of one component of what is euphemistically known as “choice”– privately-managed, public-funding-garnering charter schools.
There’s a lot of unregulated money to be made in “school choice”– so much so that the FBI is conducting investigations nationwide on criminal behavior rampant in America’s charter schools.
That the gross negligence of states to regulate “choice” has yielded fertile ground for criminal activity appears to have escaped any survey question posed by EdNext.
The hidden component of “choice” is the systematic dissolution of the traditional, local-school-board-run public school system. Indeed, EdNext is a corporate-reform-promoting nest that is especially fond of defunding traditional public education via under-regulated charter schools.
It is not difficult to find evidence of charter fraud and failure. Follow this link to read about charter fraud and failure in numerous states, including Florida, Ohio, California, Michigan, Connecticut, Illinois, Arizona, North Carolina, and DC. In addition, have written about the “charter success game” in Louisiana here.
Charters have been sold to the American public as an established solution to replace the “failing” traditional public schools, the undeniable scapegoats for America’s EdNext and the “Promise” of “Charter Choice”–But Let’s Not Mention the FBI | deutsch29: