RAVITCH: Arizona Will Boost Charter Funding by Cutting Public School Budgets

[yurbud]

There seems to be a bipartisan consensus that if public spending doesn't put some money directly in the pockets of the already wealthy it should be cut.

It's too bad we don't have at least one major party that fights against that corrupt logic.

Arizona’s Governor Doug Ducey appointed a commission to fix school funding. The commission has decided that The schools don’t need more money, even though the state is one of the lowest spending in the nation. What’s needed is more funding for charters. The pie stays the same, but the underfunded public schools will lose money to the charters.

A large proportion of the students in Arizona are of Hispanic origin. I wonder if any of their parents served on Governor Ducey ‘s commission?

http://dianeravitch.net/2015/09/26/arizona-will-increase-charter-funding-by-cutting-public-school-budgets/

[Warren Stupidity]

1. A classic bait and switch operation.

Charter schools were sold as enhancements to the public system that would not take one dime from public education. Then they become part of our crony capitalist system of abject corruption and suddenly they are getting funded instead of public schools. And the 'savings', already nonexistent, are in reality profits siphoned off to the connected elites running and servicing the privatized schools, the employees of the charter schools are generally non-union lower wage lower benefit replacements for the good jobs with good pensions that the public system provided, and the 'superior' education the charter schools provide are almost entirely because they get to cherry pick their students and dump the remainders in the public system.

[yurbud]

2. it's a continuation of the enclosure act. The commons are gradually fenced off, declared private

property, and then we are charged for the use of what used to belong to all of us.

We developed a blindness to it in the 19th century because we were using it almost exclusively on Native Americans (except it used to belong to just them not all of us).