Invest in Public Schools for ALL Children. Watch Out for Partners or Stakeholders!
Public schools should be for all children. The country should get behind and invest in public education and be careful about partners or those that call themselves stakeholders.
These are business words that usually mean that public education must rely on outside companies to fund education. This means public schools are no longer under the authority of the local community. They are no longer public schools. They are like a charter school. This is a sly way to privatize public education.
Partners or stakeholders might positively invest in schools, with little or no strings attached. This is a good thing.
They could also take charge of the curriculum and the management of the school. The school is then similar to a charter school.
We learn about how this attempt to transform public schools to privatization started in the 1980s by an example in the book The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America, by William Kleinknecht.
In 1985, Dixon High School in Dixon, Illinois, the school President Reagan had CONTINUE READING: