| For the past decade , a bevy of very powerful people have savaged our nation's public schools while calling themselves "reformers." It is clear that they have no desire to "reform" our public schools but to privatize/monetize them. The Bush-Obama era of "measure and punish" has not reformed our public schoolsur public schools but has plunged them into unending disruption, demoralization, and upheaval. They have honed their PR message well. They couldn ??t very well go to the public and say ??with the help of some Wall Street billionaires and foundations run by billionaires, we have come to demolish your community ??s schools and hand them over to corporations. ? That wouldn ??t play well. So they sold their goals as ??reform, ? using the power of the federal government through No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top to close public schools, to demean the teaching profession..." |
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