{"id":14138,"date":"2013-08-20T16:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T20:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2013-08-20T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T20:50:58","slug":"a-scandal-thats-exposing-ugly-truths-about-the-school-privatization-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/20\/a-scandal-thats-exposing-ugly-truths-about-the-school-privatization-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scandal That&#8217;s Exposing Ugly Truths About the School Privatization Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tangelia Sinclair-Moore <a title=\"Post by Tangelia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tangelia.sinclairmoore\/posts\/10200574093170270\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>posted<\/strong><\/a> the article, <a title=\"Divid Sirota article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/education\/scandal-thats-opening-ugly-truth-about-school-privatization-agenda-enrichment-dressed?page=0%2C1&amp;paging=off\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Scandal That&#8217;s Exposing Ugly Truths About the School Privatization Agenda<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp; by David Sirota, on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Before all of these controversies, of course, there were plenty of ways to see that something other than concern for kids has been driving \u201creformers\u2019\u201d push to privatize public schools.<\/p>\n<p>You could, for example, contrast privatizers\u2019 pro-charter-school propaganda with Stanford University\u2019s study showing that most charter schools perform no better \u2014 and often worse \u2014 than traditional public schools.<\/p>\n<p>You could juxtapose the Reuters story screaming \u201cPrivate Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. Public Schools\u201d next to the New York Times headline blaring \u201cHedge Funds\u2019 Leaders Rally for Charter Schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You could consider that the most prolific fundraiser in the education \u201creform\u201d 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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I naively thought that this was an ideological battle.&nbsp; Thanks to Tangelia for posting this so that I could see that it really was all about money.&nbsp; I should have known.&nbsp; We all should have known.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangelia Sinclair-Moore posted the article, A Scandal That&#8217;s Exposing Ugly Truths About the School Privatization Agenda&nbsp; by David Sirota, on her Facebook page. &#8230;Before all of these controversies, of course, there were plenty of ways to see that something other than concern for kids has been driving \u201creformers\u2019\u201d push to privatize public schools. You could, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}