Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Fate of McKinley Elementary School | Seattle Education 2010

The Fate of McKinley Elementary School | Seattle Education 2010

The Fate of McKinley Elementary School

This article is a follow-up to a previous post describing just how closely woven into the fabric of California’s public education system the privatizers have become.

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Steve Barr is the CEO and founder of Greendot, Inc., a charter school franchise. It is his idea to have as many Greendot, Inc. charter schools as possible in the United States if not beyond in the coming years. To achieve this goal, he and Ben Austin who was hired as a consultant by Greendot, Inc. have created what Ben Austin terms “The Parent Trigger”. In California it is now law, thanks to Mr. Austin and company, that if 51% of parents sign a petition demanding that their school be “turned around”, then the district