Eleven Warning Signs that Privatizers Are Invading Your School District During the Pandemic
“In The Public Interest,” a nonpartisan organization that supports a healthy public sector, has identified eleven warning signs that privatizers are targeting your school district.
Read them and be prepared to defend your public schools from privatizers and profiteers!
Here are the first six. Open the link and learn about the other five:
As students, parents, educators, and school districts struggle to adjust to the Covid-19 pandemic, others see the crisis as an opportunity to escalate their efforts to further privatize public education. For years, “education reformers,” private companies that want to profit from public education dollars, and others have worked to undermine public education by privatizing all aspects of it—from charter schools, to contracted out bus services and cafeterias, to private testing companies, to software and hardware providers touting the benefits of virtual/online education.
With the current need for districts to rapidly switch to distance learning, many of these same privatization CONTINUE READING: Eleven Warning Signs that Privatizers Are Invading Your School District During the Pandemic | Diane Ravitch's blog
