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With A Brooklyn Accent: The Warren/Charter School Flap: Perspectives of a Bay Area Educator

With A Brooklyn Accent: The Warren/Charter School Flap: Perspectives of a Bay Area Educator

The Warren/Charter School Flap: Perspectives of a Bay Area Educator


The following was just sent to me by a Bay Area Educator to provide some context as to why Elizabeth Warren's choice of a charter school teacher to honor at her rally was so controversial
It focuses less on Warren and the young teacher she introduced than the unhappy history of
Charter Schools in the Oakland Unified School District

Oakland Unified has been warmly welcoming to charter schools and “reformers” from the beginning, and the organization Great Oakland Public Schools (GO Public Schools), funded by the Waltons and other billionaires, has been the orchestrator of much of that, pushing the usual “reform” policies into the district. OUSD has been increasingly troubled and gone through waves of financial crisis. A recent “reform” superintendent* left the district in even more dire financial chaos than ever.*

in the last few years OUSD has begun assessing the toll charters have taken, and recently released a report detailing the financial devastation they've wrought on the district. And the district was just racked by a teacher strike in which charters were a huge issue. Basically, charters have become radioactive in Oakland.

Then, las weekend Elizabeth Warren made a successful appearance at a huge Oakland rally, introduced by a former teacher who mentioned her five years teaching in a high-poverty part of the district. An Oakland teacher who was at the rally thought it was strange that that the CONTINUE READING:
With A Brooklyn Accent: The Warren/Charter School Flap: Perspectives of a Bay Area Educator


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