Edison Awarded 2 More Philadelphia Schools

[Jara sang]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500809.html

PHILADELPHIA -- Maxcine Collier had been principal of the 400-student Anderson Elementary School in Southwest Philadelphia for five years when, in 2001, she was told that a for-profit company, Edison Schools Inc., was going to take over the school's management from the Philadelphia School District.

Parents and teachers were apprehensive, she said. But more than three-quarters of Anderson's students were performing below grade level, according to Pennsylvania state testing standards. The school, in a neighborhood that borders suburban Upper Darby, housed many special-education students from other parts of the city

Anybody here see a problem with corporations running schools? I would say it's the beginning of the end but I've already said that about so many things. The line between civil government and corporate hegemonic government grows thinner and thinner...

[PA Mamma]

1. Very Disturbing !!!!

The destruction of the Public Schools system is only par for the course. An educated electorate is just bad for business.
But not much surprises me these days.
I just experienced Hymn singing while voters waited in line to cast their ballot, at my local polling place. Not by voters but the election officials !!!
(And please know that I am not bashing religion -- simply, there is a time and place.)

Maybe you should post this in the PA Forum as well.