ALEC Privatization of Education Scheme - A Failure

Some snips from Common Dreams this morning

A new report will be out next week on the disaster known as school privatization.

Links to the pre-release of the report and the executive summary are in the Common Dreams article.

A new report will be out next week on the disaster known as school privatization.

An ACTUAL research stuffy – which differs from the anecdotal junk results purported to happen.

Study: School Reform in 3 Major Cities Didn't Pass the Test

Snips from the article:

Many people in the education world have long argued that the public education system is a civic enterprise that shouldn’t be operated like a business,  but modern reformers have imposed market-oriented initiatives anyway.

The report says that benefits of corporate-based reform have been exaggerated in each of these cities.

The executive summary of the report says that impacts of reform include:

* Test scores increased less, and achievement gaps grew more,

* Reported successes for targeted students evaporated.

* Test-based accountability thinned the ranks of experienced teachers,

* School closures did not send students to better schools or save school districts money.

* Charter schools   …  providing mixed benefits, .  

Another report showing that school privatization schemes pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council are failures to society.

  

Additional information on the push by ALEC state legislators to steal taxpayer money to increase corporate profits - by privatization of public goods an services can be found here

Profiting from Public Dollars: How ALEC and Its Members Promote Privatization of Government Services and Assets

And even more information on the push by ALEC state legislators to steal taxpayer money to increase corporate profits - by privatization of the public educational system can be found here.

Privatizing Public Education, Higher Ed Policy, and Teachers

And remember folks - ALEC = YOUR state legislators who belong to ALEC -
"ALEC" doesn't enact the privatization of education legislation in your states - YOUR ALEC state legislators bring this legislation - written by private education corporations -  back from ALEC meetings and enacts it in your state.  YOUR ALEC state legislators are to blame for this!

"ALEC" makes it possible for YOUR ALEC state legislator to meet behind closed doors in private meetings with corporate lobbyists - to benefit corporate revenues.

"ALEC" makes this possible.
YOUR ALEC state legislator makes it happen.

YOU need to get ALEC state legislators - OUT OF OFFICE.
If YOU don't - YOU are responsible for this mess.

Don’t know who/what ALEC is?
It is time you did!!!
For lots of info about the American Legislative Exchange Council
check out this webpage
ALEC Exposed