Iserbyt is not begging the question here. P-16 and P-20 councils are not only spreading their tentacles across the field of education alone. Already, the health and human services sectors of the public economy are likewise being assimilated into privatized P-16/20 councils. In fact, several P-16 and P-20 councilmembers are appointed from various health and human services agencies, thereby interlocking the managerial personnel and administrative positions of both public education and public health and human services.
According to the Education Commission of the States :
- * One member of the Governor's P-16 Council of Arizona is likewise a member from the Early Childhood Development and Health Board.
- * A seat on the North Carolina P-16 Council is held by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- * A member of the Arkansas P-16 Council is simultaneously the Director (or a designee) of the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services.
- * In Rhode Island, the Chair of the Human Resources Investment Council sits on the Statewide P-16 Council.
- * In Colorado, the Governor's P-20 Education Coordinating Council designates a council seat to the Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Services of the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center.
- * In Montana, the P-16 Council delegates a council seat to the Director (or designee) of the Department of Public Health and Human Services (as an ex-officio member).
- * The Nebraska P-16 Leadership Council, which is funded by the Nebraska Health and Human Services Commission, assigns the CEO of the Department of Health and Human Services as a councilmember.
Moreover, in my article titled "Corporate-Fascist Workforce Training for the Hegelian State," I document how Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is manipulating Hegelian-dialectical crisis management over Illinois's demolished state economy in order to crash-land insolvent public human services agencies into P-20 council receivership under the auspices of 105 ILCS 5/22-45 and Executive Order 2016-03.
In addition, Rauner's "Executive Order Establishing the Governor's Cabinet on Children and Youth" also integrates the criminal justice system into Illinois's public-private P-20 partnerships through the cabinet appointment of The Director of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Similar state-level public-private partnerships between charter schools and police agencies are recommended by an article in the Community Policing Dispatch Newsletter of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) of the US Department of Justice. The article, "A Role for Officers in Schools," reports that the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center Project of the Law Enforcement Advisory Group, which advocates for "school/law enforcement partnerships, . . . is supported by a public/private partnership that includes the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention" as well as three philanthropies that are invested in charter schools: The NoVo Foundation, The California Endowment, and Atlantic Philanthropies.
At the national level, other public-private partnerships between charter schools and police agencies are recommended by the National Resource Center on Charter School Finance in a 2008 report entitled A Guide for Policy Makers: Partnerships Between Charter Schools and Other Organizations . Likewise, the Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21stCentury Policing advocates for the federalization of similar "public-private partnership[s]" between police forces and "public health, education, mental health, and other programs not traditionally part of the criminal justice system."
As a direct response to this Task Force report, the architectural firm Studio Gang has launched the Polis research project for redesigning police stations as "community centers" that are structured to facilitate the public-private fusion of law enforcement, healthcare, and learning services all at one complex. Jeanne Gang, who is the founding principle of Studio Gang, describes one of her Chicago Polis stations as featuring an information learning center with "a computer lab in the [police] station; free Wi-Fi was a great amenity. We thought about city services, and offering mental health services. . . . We thought services could be bundled. . . . We tried to associate design ideas with different recommendations from the [Task Force] report."
The public-private unification of these three public services under multiplex "urban planning" construction projects is the quintessence of the Deweyan-Hegelian "cradle-to-career" philosophy that underpins both the charter school movement generally and the P-16/20 council movement specifically. Indeed, the odd admixture of leftist communitarian social philosophy with rightwing corporate-fascist political-economics could only be the product of a neo-Hegelian ideology. As historicized by former Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Antony C. Sutton, "both Marx and Hitler, the extremes of 'left' and 'right' presented as textbook enemies, evolved out of the same philosophical system: Hegelianism" (34).
Such public-private multiplex schools also embody John Dewey's Hegelianist educational philosophy as stated in My Pedagogic Creed: "[t]he school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends" (qtd. in Sutton 102). Quite literally, Polis community centers and P-16/20 schools concentrate the integral public services and corporate agencies of a regional community into singular governance institutions that facilitate public-private political-economic planning. For a detailed analysis of the Deweyan-Hegelian roots of cradle-to-career charter school methodology and P-16/20 council governance, see my article: "Corporate-Fascist Workforce Training for the Hegelian State."
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