Re: Private Foundations and Public Schools

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

The more teachers pay for out of their pockets in the poor schools, and  
rich parents pay out of theirs in the rich schools, the less the state  
will deign to give us.
Susan

On Wednesday, July 25, 2007, at 04:50 PM, Rich Gibson wrote:

> Carl Cohn is playing out as the good cop to former thug/superintendent  
> bad cop Alan Bersin.
>
> While involving district employees in discussions about how to best  
> oppress themselves, the iron fist behind his regime, like all of them,  
> remains the militarization of schooling, highstakes exams (teaching  
> lies to kids using methods so obscure that kids learn to not like to  
> learn), and inequality. Here we have a note from the Voice of San  
> Diego, someone taking partial notice.
>
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> <http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/07/25/this_just_in/ 
> 243foundations072407.txt>Private Foundations, Public Education
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> <http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/multimedia/blogemail.php?email=/ 
> articles/2007/07/25/this_just_in/243foundations072407.txt>
> []
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> <http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/multimedia/blogemail.php?email=/ 
> articles/2007/07/25/this_just_in/243foundations072407.txt>
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>  E-MAIL POST
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> In February, I  
> <http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/03/05/education/ 
> 992delmarschools022807.txt>reported on the controversy involving Del  
> Mar's elementary schools, which were receiving a significant amount in  
> donations through a private foundation created to coordinate the  
> giving.
>
> At the time, the work of the foundation turned into a political debate  
> after some parents questioned whether their kids were getting less out  
> of their public education because their schools raised fewer private  
> dollars.
>
> Here is a paragraph from the story:
>
> How the city's elementary school district decides to balance parent  
> concerns about equity with the reality that tax dollars cannot keep up  
> with the needs of public education could provide an early glimpse at  
> the issues schools in San Diego are beginning to face as nonprofit  
> educational foundations quickly emerge as permanent fixtures in public  
> education. The debate will also prove timely for the San Diego Unified  
> School District, whose superintendent Carl Cohn has made the  
> establishment of school foundations one of the priorities of his  
> administration.
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>
>
> The same issue is now emerging at San Diego's public school system.  
> Private foundations formed to support some of San Diego Unified's  
> wealthier schools have paid to install artificial turf at the  
> campuses, and poorer schools have asked the district to do the same  
> for them.
>
> The issue has caught the attention of school board member Katherine  
> Nakamura.
>
> "It's becoming an equity issue," she said at a meeting Tuesday.
>
> Nakamura has suggested that the board consider including artificial  
> turf as part of its upcoming  
> <http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/07/24/this_just_in/ 
> 244newtaxes072407.txt>2008 bond measure, though the district has  
> identified a total of $3.7 billion in construction needs, only a part  
> of which would likely be covered by a bond.
>
>
>
> -- <mailto:vladimir.kogan@voiceofsandiego.org>VLADIMIR KOGAN
>
> http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/this_just_in/#blurb2
>
>
> Tuesday, July 24 -- 5:39 pm
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