Charter Op-Ed Misrepresents (Big Tree): My Response That They Won’t Print (Small Axe)
If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down, to cut you down! Bob Marley
I submitted an Op-Ed two weeks ago to the San Antonio Express News (SAEN) and they have refused to print it. The SAEN has not given the cold shoulder to corporate charter proponents. They printed an Op-Ed by Victoria Rico, a trustee of the George W. Brackenridge Foundation which has poured millions into recruiting and establishing corporate charters to San Antonio. The corporate charters that they are welcoming and desiring? KIPP, IDEA, Great Hearts and BASIS (et al)… Incidentely, each of which have appeared previously at Cloaking Inequity. See:
From Friend to Foe: Austin 1, IDEA 0 and Austin American Statesman’s IDEA fact check
Entire KIPP thread here. Also, “Work Hard, Be Nice?”: A Response to KIPP
Great Heart charters say “Diversity is too hard”
and then there is BASIS: What BASIS?: Nepotism and aggrandizement in charters?
Well, the reality of data and research on corporate charters in Texas and elsewhere did not stop Victoria Rico from proclaiming that “Despite social ills, students in charter schools succeed“ The beauty of social media is that the traditional media can no longer silence counter-narrative and dissent. Here is the response to Rico that the SAEN does not want you to see:
Charter proponents do a disservice to the public by misrepresenting what Texas data actually say when comparing charters to traditional public schools, as Victoria Rico did in a Jan. 16 opinion piece in the San Antonio Express-News.
