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Real agenda of school choice advocates

This piece states our concerns. “Perhaps the most debated notion in elementary and secondary education these days is school choice. It is invoked constantly by so-called educational reformers and politicians (an overlapping pair), who arouse the public by asking, ‘Why shouldn’t everyone have the same choices the rich folks have?’ Of course that’s a red herring and is neither the intent nor the result of school choice.” http://www.vnews.com/home/10055345-95/steve-nelson-real-agenda-of-school-choice-advocates...
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Warnings about market-choice and charter school proliferation from New York City

The following is an excerpt from,  “Bring This City To A Place Where Our Children Really Are Put First:” Implementing Mayor-elect de Blasio’s Education Platform in New York City, written by an insider at the New York City Department of Education, and appeared on Diane Ravitch’s blog in December, 2013. Has the portfolio strategy based on market-choice and charter schools improved student outcomes? The DOE’s portfolio/choice strategy has not addressed extreme divergence in school outcomes and the lack of diversity in schools. The DOE’s data sets show that schools in NYC are not providing students with equal opportunity. SAT scores- in only...
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Moving schools from public sector to private sector is a false choice

“Moving our schools from the public sector to the private sector is a false choice. Instead, as the research concisely demonstrates, parents and students should be able to choose a neighborhood public school with the important characteristics that are already established in the research literature and consistently observed in wealthy high-performing public and private schools. Access to those choices in democratically-controlled neighborhood public schools is the civil rights issue of our time— large-scale privatization of education is not.” Here’s a different look at the attempt to push school “choice” as a solution to the problems our schools face. http://txedrev.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Heilig_Reframing-the-Refrain_TxEdRev.pdf...
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