Let us not forget that in addition to corporate "philanthropists" promoting charter schools, the public schools must share what sparse funds they have with charter schools. Now after more than ten years of doing this, scoring above most charter schools, cutbacks, pay freezes, personnel cuts, program cuts, exorbitant salaries for District Administrators and bonuses, back-door deals with politicians with charter companies, selling of the School District's Art Collection, land deals for $1 with clients of the law firm with which The Head of the src is associated...
There isn't enough for full-day Kindergarten, music, art, and 1,200 teachers. In order to demonstrate the gravity of the situation and the machinations behind it, click this link: http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/index.asp If you click the tab on the left-hand side of the page entitled "Guidebooks", then click K-12 Education, you will see pdf files you can download with these titles: Read it yourself if you don't believe me K-12 Education Saving America's Urban Catholic Schools: A Guide for Donors <http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/store_product.asp?prodid=221> by Stephanie Saroki and Christopher Levenick *Click here <http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Americas-Catholic-Schools-ebook/dp/B004IARUJM /> to purchase the Kindle edition of this guidebook. Investing in Charter Schools: A Guide for Donors <http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/store_product.asp?prodid=218> by Public Impact Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence: A Guidebook for Donors <http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/store_product.asp?prodid=210> by Andrew J. Rotherham Jump-starting the Charter School Movement: A Donor's Guide <http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/store_product.asp?prodid=174> by Public Impact A Donor's Guide to School Choice <http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/store_product.asp?prodid=173> by Brian C. Anderson On 5/1/11 1:24 PM, "Glenn" <glen...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > >On 5/1/2011 11:47 AM, Richard Conrad wrote: >> It also seemed to me that they downplayed the value of proper funding >>way too much in the film, decrying "throwing money at the problem". > >Rick, > >I didn't see the movie, but read an analysis and it was either covered >on Grit TV or Democracy Now. Yes, it was propaganda to keep fooling >people. > >Some charters receive enormous temporary supplemental corporate money, >which is downplayed. As you note, one reason is to create a success >that can never again be replicated, creaming. This Harlem system had >things like tutoring, counseling and ancillary services for the parents >and students! > >Well yea, they got success! > > > Give resources for these evidence based interventions to public >schools that don't receive hidden resources, and they will get better >outcomes too! Downplaying this temporary funding is a big fraud that is >reinforced in the propaganda literature, and backed up by the pathetic >corporate media. > > >Centralized power: Yes centralized power is a huge problem being >protected. The power brokers have confused and misled Americans to >accept some ridiculous concepts to continue their power, while also >diverting more money to cronies throughout their network. > >Ridiculous: > >1. Teachers can be reduced to technicians "delivering" an exact system >to all students. >2. A few great men can create a manual driven curriculum or a single >perfect evaluation instrument. (That is a corporate/university model >used to maximize profit, while keeping professionals beaten down and >intimidated.) > > >These failed concepts serve elite centralized power, but hurt the >interests of society. Evaluations, as a part of good professional >development, would use real people and would be done locally. > >Instruments to collect statistical data can be appropriate tools, but >cannot be used for evaluations the way the singular focus on test data >has been used. Elitism centered at universities is a big part of this >absurdity. (I know many of the great men, personally) > > >But good evaluations would immediately uncover the secrets that >centralized power will not allow the American people to discuss. The >funding gap, lack of programs and staff, etc. would immediately be >reported by evaluators going into different schools! Good evaluations >will only be allowed if we demand a Marshall plan for public education >and tax the super wealthy and corporate "persons!" > > >That is why more people need to see through these massive frauds, and be >able to reject these absurd concepts used in the war against public >education. It's not important for everyone to do the analysis of >education themselves, but it is monumentally important for our fellow >citizens to learn to detect these massive frauds encircling our society! > >Glenn > > > > > > > > > > > >---- >You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see ><http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
