Tangelia Sinclair-Moore posted the article, A Scandal That’s Exposing Ugly Truths About the School Privatization Agenda  by David Sirota, on her Facebook page.

…Before all of these controversies, of course, there were plenty of ways to see that something other than concern for kids has been driving “reformers’” push to privatize public schools.

You could, for example, contrast privatizers’ pro-charter-school propaganda with Stanford University’s study showing that most charter schools perform no better — and often worse — than traditional public schools.

You could juxtapose the Reuters story screaming “Private Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. Public Schools” next to the New York Times headline blaring “Hedge Funds’ Leaders Rally for Charter Schools.”

You could consider that the most prolific fundraiser in the education “reform” movement is not someone with a stellar record of education policy success, but instead Michelle Rhee, the former Washington, D.C., schools chief whose tenure was defined by a massive cheating scandal.

I naively thought that this was an ideological battle.  Thanks to Tangelia for posting this so that I could see that it really was all about money.  I should have known.  We all should have known.

I also had thought that Michelle Rhee was a true reformer, but I started having some doubts when I started reading her diatribes against some of the public school teachers.