April 20, 2015
THEY SEE THE SAME THING:
Can Los Angeles Teachers Push Back the Corporate Education Reform Movement? (MARIO VASQUEZ, 4/20/15, in These Times)
Education reformers claim their goal is to improve public education for poor students. But education activists and teachers unions see a more insidious agenda: to render education a private good rather than a public right for all. Backed by uber-wealthy philanthropists such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Eli and Edythe Broad and the Walton family (owners of Walmart), reformers ramp up high-stakes testing, villainize teachers and unions, close public schools and open non-union charter schools.
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 20, 2015 6:59 PM
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