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This is What Privatization Looks Like: Schools Bought and Sold; by Diane Ravitch

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 THE TRUTH IS HERE: "Why should taxpayers subsidize corporations that buy and sell schools to one another as one fails and the other picks up the offloaded franchise?This is what privatization looks like.: Virginia-based Accel Schools,  is amassing an education empire the likes of which hasn’t been seen since White Hat dominated the Ohio landscape, has now bought out the contract for OHDELA. These schools are 100% taxpayer-funded yet they’re being bought and sold by private entities. All they’re doing is replacing one garbage contractor with others.Ohio needs to clean house of state-level politicians and get some new people in there.This situation will not improve until we break the stranglehold these contractors and their lobbyists have on state government. Vote them all out of office in November!

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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