Center for Reinventing Public Education the Billionaires’ Advocate
By Thomas Ultican 8/26/2020
In 1993, Political Science Professor Paul T. Hill established the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs on the University of Washington campus. The research group Hill founded is steeped in public school failure ideology. On their web site Hill lets it be known “The Center has a definite point of view.” Among the points listed are:
“The ineffectiveness of big city public schools clouds the futures of millions of children.”
“Incremental efforts to improve urban public education without disturbing the school boards, unions, and central office administrators have failed, largely because roles, missions, and interests of those organizations are incompatible with effective schooling.”
“There are now far too few good public schools in big cities, in part because the entire structure of city school systems, from regulation and funding to teacher selection and professional development, is hostile to school quality.”
“To create good schools in urban areas where academic failure is the norm, we need an entirely different way of creating and operating schools.”
The CRPE 1999 “about” statement states,
“The Center pursues a national program of research and development on such proposals as charter schools, school contracting, choice, and school system decentralization, via alliances with the Brookings Institution, The RAND Corporation, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Chicago.”
Professor Hill, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, was a CONTINUE READING: Center for Reinventing Public Education the Billionaires’ Advocate | tultican