Their strategy is simple: starve the most vulnerable schools of resources, replace targeted curriculum with ineffective standardized testing, evaluate teacher performance based on increasingly low student test scores, and then use those scores to justify school closures in order to effortlessly push through the expansion of charter schools. Kenneth J. Saltman, professor of education at DePaul University in Chicago, asserts that theres a two-tier education system thats being created in which schools on the bottom tier will be privately managed. Wealthy individuals and venture philanthropists like Bill Gates have since realized that there is a fortune to be made from privatizing public education because there are far more poor students than there are rich. And with a little help from their elected friends in municipal offices they have begun to turn our public education system into a profit-generating scheme for the private sector.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:04:30 +0000