Wednesday, October 31, 2012

New What for New Who? | The G Bitch Spot

New What for New Who? | The G Bitch Spot:


New What for New Who?

The only way the documents below make sense is if my [or our] suspicions are true—that this “education” “Reform” is more about the bottom line of interested businesses and individuals who get outsized salaries, compared to salaries before “Reform,” regardless of success, experience, education or knowledge of anything, including and especially education. New schools? Really? I see “new” but not what I’ve been told is, and even what’s “new” is pretty damn old, the same get-over, the same segregated schools, the same exploitation in the name of saving The Children all while 6-figure salaries become the norm in administration but teacher salaries and benefits stay flat or go down thanks to anti-labor and -collective bargaining ideology and randomly-acquired biases. As I’ve said before, what about John White’s brief TfA training and tenure in a classroom qualifies him to be superintendent of an entire state?
Document one: A summary of the information in the next pages about New Schools for New Orleans’ beginnings, mission statement and facts that seem to contradict that mission, compensation, outside consulting fees, grants to organizations, independent contractor and “consultancy” fees, and how much cash, considering these numbers, is left over for NSNO’s “helping The Children.”