See the Koch brothers attack public education and call David Koch!

See the Koch brothers attack public education and call David Koch!:

1. 1. After the November 2009 elections, the Wake County school board dismantled socio-economic diverse schools and began to implement a neighborhood schools plan that would resegregate schools.
2. 2. Resegregation in schools would be a disaster. It would turn back the clock fifty years with the creation of high poverty, racially isolated schools. The integration plan destroyed by Koch-supported board of education members was used as a model for high achieving, diverse schools throughout the country.
3. 3. This October 2011, Wake Country elections will decide if schools become resegregated. Koch-supported candidates are still pushing for neighborhood schools and to end diversity.
4. 4. The Koch brothers free market, libertarian ideology rests on privatization in society, especially the privatization of education.
5. 5. The Kochs founded Americans for Prosperity in 2004, and AFP indirectly poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Wake County school board elections and helped jeopardize the diversity policy.

School shutdown leaves students, teachers scrambling | news10.net

School shutdown leaves students, teachers scrambling | news10.net:

School shutdown leaves students, teachers scrambling

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WEST SACRAMENTO, CA - The California College, Career and Technical Education Center has shutdown in West Sacramento leaving teachers and students and staff scrambling to find somewhere else to go.

Some parents apparently found out about the charter school's unexpected closure when they arrived for an orientation meeting Thursday and found the school's

Education system has been hijacked | The News Star | thenewsstar.com

Education system has been hijacked | The News Star | thenewsstar.com:

Education system has been hijacked

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It is wrong to assume that anything done to our public schools under the title of education reform is a good thing. I believe the Louisiana education accountability system, which started off as a good idea, has been hijacked by special interests who are pushing for the privatization of our public schools. Despite an aggressive PR campaign in favor of this movement, there is no real evidence that this push to privatization is good for students, but there is plenty of evidence of harmful effects.

Our education accountability system in Louisiana allows for the takeover of low-performing public schools by the state. But recent changes allow most of these school takeovers to be converted into charter schools. These takeover charter schools can be a windfall for private individuals and groups who want to profit from school takeover.

Unfortunately, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary

Henry McNeal Turner: “Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature.” – Zinn Education Project

Henry McNeal Turner: “Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature.” – Zinn Education Project:

Henry McNeal Turner: “Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature.”

Film clip. Henry McNeal Turner’s “Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature” (1968), read by Danny Glover. From Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

African Methodist Episcopal bishop and representative to the Georgia state legislature, Henry McNeal Turner. Photo: Blackpast.org.

Henry McNeal Turner’s “Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature” where he stated “I Claim the Rights of a Man” (September 3, 1868).

After organizing the first U.S. Colored Troops, Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) later joined them as Chaplain. He then became a delegate to the state constitutional convention in Atlanta. In 1868 Turner was elected as a representative to the

NOLA Public Schools & School Privatization Part 1: Selected Bibliography of Articles, Books, Studies and Informed Opinions–2011 to 10/2010 | The G Bitch Spot

NOLA Public Schools & School Privatization Part 1: Selected Bibliography of Articles, Books, Studies and Informed Opinions–2011 to 10/2010 | The G Bitch Spot:

NOLA Public Schools & School Privatization Part 1: Selected Bibliography of Articles, Books, Studies and Informed Opinions–2011 to 10/2010

Posted on August 8, 2011 by G Bitch

“Selected” is not used lightly. It’s more like “G Bitch recommended reading” with a 5-ton debt to Dr. Lance Hill [see part 3]:

Will Sentell. Uncertified teachers cited in state probe of charter school. The Advocate [Baton Rouge]. 8/12/2011

BESE document: contains original documents on Abramson Science and Technology

Queens Teacher: The Threat of Accountabalism

Queens Teacher: The Threat of Accountabalism:

The Threat of Accountabalism

by Queens Teacher

The Threat of Accountabalism

Phillip C. Schlechty

This practice has worked its way into public education, and now it's gobbling up our young.

Public education in the United States is slowly being overwhelmed by what business consultant David Weinberger calls accountabalism.1

According to Weinberger, accountabalism is "the practice of eating sacrificial victims in an attempt to magically ward off evil." He goes on to write,

Because accountability suggests that there is a right and a wrong answer to every question, it flourishes where