These privatized amalgamations of public learning resources, public health services, and "community policing" are exemplary of the ubiquitous public-private administrative governance that is being advocated on a national scale by corporatists such as media-technology tycoon Reed Hastings. According to Hastings in his keynote speech at the 2014 California Charter Schools Conference, "self-perpetuating" public-private governance should be adopted as a standard model of bureaucracy across all sectors of America's planned political-economy because it has proven to be a more efficient form of governance than democracy.
Idealizing the self-perpetuating bureaucracies of corporations, military branches, papal churches, and partisan political organizations, Hastings believes that public schools, and all other public institutions, should be managed autocratically through privatized councils, rather than democratically through town halls and electoral processes. Hence, Hastings concludes that, "the importance of the charter school movement is to evolve America from a system where governance is constantly changing [because of elections], and you can't do long-term planning, to a system of large nonprofits that . . . look like the breadth of say military branches, churches, universities, nonprofits, all trying to outdo each other to serve the children."
It is keen to note how Hastings is showing his hand here: for Hastings, the ultimate goal of mass charter school incorporation is to "evolve America"--not just the school system, but the entire political-economic structure of the country. Hastings is aiming to "evolve America" from an elected republican democracy that separates political and economic powers, and to mutate it into a corporate-fascist autocracy that controls every sector of the nation's planned political-economy.
Perhaps Hastings would like to sit on the P-16/20 councils that govern corporate charter school chains across the nation, since he currently also sits on the Board of Directors of KIPP, Netflix, Facebook, and Microsoft Corporations.
Footnotes:
[1] For primary-source evidence that describes the P-20 council governance of the College and Career Readiness Commission, the High School Redesign Commission,and the Blue Ribbon Commission for Educational Excellence, consult the three government documents listed in the References section at the end of this article.
References:
Louisiana, Board of Regents (BoR). Master Plan for Public Postsecondary Education in Louisiana: 2011. BoR, 2012. click here>.
Sutton, Antony C. America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones. Updated Reprint. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2002. Print.
United States, Department of Education. Louisiana's ESEA Flexibility Request. US Department of Education, 2012. www2.ed.gov/policy/eseaflex/approved-requests/la.pdf>.
White, John. Louisiana, Department of Education (LDOE). Louisiana Annual Performance Report--Part B: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011. LDOE, 2012. click here>.
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