school privatization

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2023
  

  How the Reagan Administration Used "A Nation at Risk" to Push for School Privatization

  by Valerie Strauss and James Harvey

  One of the educators who served on the commission that developed an influential report on the state of American education argues that the report was built to serve an anti-public school ideology, and that its conclusions were a foundation for the culture war battles over schooling today. 

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• SOURCE: The Progressive
  12/5/2022
  

  The Culture War on Public Education

  by Peter Greene

  The multifront culture war beseiging schools has one unifying principle: undermining trust in public schools so they can be privatized, without regard for the best interests of children. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/24/2022
  

  School Privatizers are Carrying the Culture War Banner

  Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/30/2022
  

  The Lesson from Republicans' Embrace of "Classical Education"

  Calls for "transparency" in curriculum are working hand in hand with an agenda to divert public school funding to charter schools using a curriculum steeped in Christian nationalism. But liberals would do well to heed the connection these plans draw between education and citizenship, and parents' desire to connect them more firmly.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/13/2020
  

  Once a Symbol of Desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ School now Reflects another Battle Engulfing Public Education

  by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White

  The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States.