“If I was going to write a bill to privatize public schools, this is what it would look like.”
Sen. K. Vinehout's blog
“If I was going to write a bill to privatize public schools,” the Senate staffer told our small group, “this is what it would look like.”
We were reviewing a new version of a bill to test students attending private schools using state tax dollars. By this sixth version, the bill morphed into something entirely different.
The latest version of the bill was crafted behind closed doors; unlike three years ago when a wide-ranging group developed a system to test and report the progress of all students attending school with public money. Private school advocates publically agreed to the same public school accountability standards but privately lobbied for something different.
The bill reversed current law requiring all students be tested using the same type of exam. This bill allowed private schools to choose their own type of assessment and even choose the students who took the test – allowing them to game the system.
Concealed in the bill was a way to gradually close more and more public schools or turn them over to independent private charter operators.
http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/plan-unveiled-gradually-privatize-public-schools
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Raymond Shaw: Yes.
Eleanor Shaw: Listen.
