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Schools Matter: Mississippi Charter Bill Would Remove Local Decision Making in Approximately 100 School Districts

Schools Matter: Mississippi Charter Bill Would Remove Local Decision Making in Approximately 100 School Districts:


Mississippi Charter Bill Would Remove Local Decision Making in Approximately 100 School Districts

The next time you hear a Dixiecrat or any white Southern conservative businessman expound on the necessity for local political control, ask him why he does not believe that this sacred right does not extend to public education decisions.  In Mississippi, white edupreneurs, businessmen, and various other corporate welfare bottom feeders are doing their best to remove local control from two-thirds of Mississippi school districts in order to turn their schools over to corporations to run at public expense.

The most vulnerable, of course, are the poorest districts where test scores mirror the economic disadvantage of children in these districts.  Citizens in these "D" and "F" districts would not have a choice in whether or not to allow the corporate apartheid reform schools from taking over the education of their children.

The sticking point now centers on the 50 or so school districts that are rated "Satisfactory," or "C," based on the