Re: Fwd: George Miller

[monicalucido@comcast.net]

Hi, Ken. After reading atuff from Kathy Emory out of California on how media outlets and business roundtables have closed the "net" around schools to for privatization, this article only proves that even Time is on the payroll. This is the letter I sent into Time after I read that atrocious article:

Dear Editor,

Your story about the take over of the New Orleans School disctricts 
post-Katrina was abhorrent. To insinuate that the poor blacks and 
others of that community are part of an experiment is akin to the 
days of slavery. As much as Paul Vallas and Co. want to promote 
their privatization scheme, it was not mentioned that those rich 
charter schools get to select out the lowest performing and behaving 
students and leave them to hurricane damaged, prison-like remaining 
buildings. Thus, as the author states, "failing" schools will be 
shut down, and that's their goal. To eliminate public education by 
creating a lie. I am amazed how fast the government allowed this 
takeover of the schools, and yet still has failed to rectify the 
billions of dollars in damage to that coastline. I smell a rat!

Joseph Lucido
Educators and Parents Against Test Abuse
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From: Kenneth Bernstein <kber@earthlink.net>
> Peter mentioned the New Orleans school situation.  Unfortunately, Mary Landrieu 
> has been a big supporter of choice, and what has happened in the Crescent City 
> as that they have used Katrina as an excuse to gut the normal structure and 
> replace it with massive charter efforts, bringing in a lot of people from places 
> like Teach for America and New Leaders for New Schools, and also bringing in 
> Paul Vallas (as if his track record in either Chicago or Philly was anything 
> particularly noteworthy).
> 
> Unfornunately, Walter Isaacson has a rave about all this in Time - as it happens 
> he grew up in New Orleans, and he is also on the board I think is of TFA...   
> Isaacsons' piece was in Sept 6 issue:  
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659767,00.html
> 
> 
> and it is probably important to remember that he is VERY involved with Aspen 
> Institute (gee, why do all of these places interconnect), as you can see by this 
> link:  
> http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.2253415/k.5A1D/About_Walter_I
> saacson.htm
> 
> 
> teacherken   aka Ken Bernstein
> 
> Kenneth J. Bernstein
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