THE POOR PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXPERIMENTS — PART 3 — NEWARK
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| Newark parents and students wait in long lines to find out their school assignment. Next, they stand in line at another location to actually enroll. Credit: myfoxtampabay.com |
This is the 3rd in a series of three posts pointing out how corporate, investor-owned charter school organizations have chosen to experiment at the expense of children who are mostly from poor families.
The first focused on New Orleans and the slick transformation of a “recovery” school situation into a permanent reduction of publicly controlled schools to zero. That’s right, zero. This school year all schooling for New Orleans will be investor-controlled and owned charters.
In the second of this series about Detroit we saw once again how problems with a public school administration in a city with high poverty and high percentages of black and brown children led toinvestor-controlled and owned charters taking over. Like in New Orleans, Detroit Public Schools were taken over by the state, not to correct problems, but to turn them over to unaccountable edu-corporations.
We have seen that these edu-corporations choose training over inquiry precisely because the investor class of people running them don’t want poor, black, and brown children to think — just comply with orders from mostly white teachers and administrators.
Newark, New Jersey is yet another example of this corporate cynicism of the entitled class who invest in and run these corporation “schools”.
The traditional mainstream media outside of New Jersey has been largely silent about a complete fiasco now under way in Newark, New Jersey. Needless to say, if this happened in any predominantly white, The Poor Pay the Highest Price for Charter School Experiments — Part 3 — Newark | Life at the Intersections: