Authentic Community-Based School Improvement vs. Privatizers' Phony Version of Local Control

[DhhD]

http://texasaftblog.com/hotline/?p=3618

Houston hedge fund billionaire, John Arnold, tries to sell a hostile take over of Dallas ISD under the misleading label, 'home rule'.

http://texasaftblog.com/hotline/?p=3609

A Home Rule Petition allows a group of profiteers to escape Texas Education Code regulations and do anything they want. If a parent wanted to send the student back to a public school, then they would pay tuitions as state money for your student, has been lost to the profiteers with no accountability for the remaining school year.

[DhhD]

1. Dallas ISD could be privatized in to a Home-rule Charter.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/03/dallas_isd_home_rule.php

This will allow no control or over sight by the public. If your kid has problems, then the parent would have to pay tuition somewhere else. A parent has no say with the business manager of a school like they had previously with a principal. There is little one can do to improve their neighborhood school after surrendering it to business. This is something like a business man making medical decisions for a doctor participating in an HMO.

[TexasTowelie]

2. An interesting follow-up to your post.

What Made Mayor Mike Rawlings Blow His Top? The Mystery.

The mayor's pissed-off walk-out last week from a meeting with Latino leaders to discuss his school takeover plan is, if anything, more of a mystery, now that a recording of the meeting is circulating. He said last week he walked out because the meeting was being hijacked and he wanted to de-escalate the situation.

Doesn't sound like it on the scratchy tape somebody must have made with a cell phone. Sounds more like he just flipped out.

But the speech the mayor was making was not at all the over-the-top attack on public education some people at the meeting quoted him later as having made.

The day after the meeting, political consultant Anna Casey quoted him to me: "He said, 'Well the facts are that our public schools are dark places without hope, and charter schools are bright. They're optimistic.'

"He flat out said that he was against public schools and for charter schools," Casey told me. "He said that."

More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/03/rawlings_home_school_angry.php .

[font color=green]For those keeping a towelie, the mayor's tantrum is something to keep in mind if the mayor files for re-election or higher office.[/font]

[DhhD]

3. Kicking. n/t

[kjackson227]

4. We've been so busy fighting this...

that I haven't been on DU for quite sometime. I should've known that you guys were informed

[TexasTowelie]

5. Like a good neighbor

DU is there!

Please check in with the Texas Group since we are the most active state group on DU. I occasionally make posts in the Louisiana Group, but I've had some mental health issues over the past few months and haven't been as active on Louisiana politics as was previously.