Re: Fwd: George Miller

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Is it really that simple, that Time magazine, Teach for America, KIPP schools, and other operators of charter schools have all been bought by business and media interests whose goal is to privatize public education?? Is that really the only explanation for what is going on in the Big Easy and in other places?? If? public schools really were "privatized," operators of charter schools could be losers instead of winners, so the all-encompassing conspiracy argument seems like loony paranoia to me.?  

Art

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From: monicalucido@comcast.net
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 7:00 pm
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Fwd: George Miller










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
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
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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