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In reply to the discussion: CA Gov Brown trusts the teachers in the classrooms, calls for local control. Blasts [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)You said:
"If the word 'oversight' is a term that reformers use; then good for them. It's what is missing from the system. "
It is the charter schools, the turnaround schools which are not regulated and do not have oversight from local districts.
They pride themselves on being "public" schools that do not have the same regulations as traditional public schools. They are proud of it. They get public money, but they do not have to follow the same rules.
I could list you many articles, and I could link you to many posts...one after the other..which show the reforms simply not working. Yet you could link to my journal, its archives...or go to the education forum. There are so many people there who have written so much. Over and over we have covered the pitfalls in all the things you mention. There are so many instances of fraud, so many charter company CEOs who get rich while the public schools get defunded.
They are taking resources from public schools, giving them to charter companies or to private schools as vouchers. Yet they are demanding more all the time from public schools as they are defunding them.
The reformers are lying about the public schools, and they are steamrolling public education with their propaganda. They have the money and power to do it. They have the president behind them, and the Secretary of Education.