Offering Real Choices or Just Segregated Charter Schools: Let's Look at the Wait Lists
Nashville is one of two cities in Tennessee that is on the billionaires' hit list for school privatization
Here are the corporate foundation whales that are funding efforts to put "harbormasters" in every city on the hit list to promote segregated No Excuses corporate welfare schools as the billionaires' choice for parents in poor neighborhoods.
A corporate outfit called Education Cities is fronting the resources of the Big Four of corporate welfare education reform (Gates, Broad, Walton, and Dell), and they are all engaged in a last ditch struggle to impose the corporate segregation model of reform schools in urban areas across the US.
In Nashville, an informed school board and groups of savvy parents are standing up to the all-out frontal assault and backroom dealings by privatization advocates and their political stooges and hedge fund operators.
The privatizers have their own mayoral candidate, incumbent governor, a state legislature owned by ALEC, and at least one US senator, Lamar Alexander, who was in town last week to promote the only choice of the corporate choosers--charter chain gang schools.
The corporate education reformers' argument to support their assault on public education is based on Schools Matter: Offering Real Choices or Just Segregated Charter Schools: Let's Look at the Wait Lists: