01.30.16 by msedblog TRUTHOUT: Obama Administration Enables Billionaire Takeover of US Public Schools With the Walton billionaires doubling down in their efforts to accelerate the charter school industry and with the Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, throwing in $100 million to privatize traditional public schools, one might think that the U.S. Department of Education would be a major line of defense for America’s public schools educating the most underserved students or even a bold investor in sustainable community schools that are truly public. One would be wrong. The U.S. Department of Education, as with the education agencies of many states, has been co-opted by the spending frenzy of the billionaire class. It’s not just the Waltons and Hastings using their fortunes to undermine public education: Eli Broad has pledged nearly a half billion dollars to privatize the public schools of Los Angeles. They are mounting a radical – or really a reactionary – effort to remake public schools into private enterprises, and charters are a key component of the transition the billionaires seek. Read more at Truth-out.org… Share this:EmailPrintFacebookLinkedInRedditTwitterGoogleTumblrPinterestPocket
