Monday, March 2, 2015

CHARTER SCHOOLS: PROFITS OVER PUPILS

VIDEO: Profitship Learning Academy-- LEARNING TO BE DUMBER WHILE THE 1% GET RICHER

Published on Dec 8, 2014

This animated feature on school privatization stars little Timmy, a kindergartner who likes his public school. Timmy gets a confusing lesson in corporate education reform, starting with the rightwing mantra "Public Schools have failed."

(The Bradley Foundation, a top rightwing think tank, has devoted more than $30 million to label public education as "failing" and promote privatization as the "solution.")

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore uses his trademark humor to show the absurdity of this argument. Despite poor results, charter chains like Rocketship are replacing real teachers and classes like art, social studies, and gym with a computer-aided test-prep curriculum straight out of science fiction.

Read more at progressive.org and check out our powerful public school activism site, http://www.publicschoolshakedown.org.





1 comment:

  1. Charter schools are not a panacea to the achievement gap or issues in education. For-profit EMOs running charter schools add an additional complication, because public educational funding is going to support both an additional school choice option for students in failing schools and the bottom line of for-profit companies. Therefore, states must develop and enforce strong accountability measures for charter schools in order to ensure that public funds for education are being used appropriately and that students are receiving a quality education, instead of thinking how to pay down debts and taking out new and new online personal loans.

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