Hi, I just wanted to correct a couple of things in your posting. Neither Tom Patterson nor I are affiliated with the Goldwater Institute, having left the Institute in the fall of 2015. I am currently President of Compact for America Educational Foundation and Tom Patterson is Chairman of the Board of the Foundation. Although we definitely are "top heavy" with Center-Right associates, we are working hard to partner with Center-Left experts and organizations. We want to find the Paul Tsongases and Paul Simons that may still exist! Please email me at nick.dranias@compactforamerica.org if you know anyone who wants to stop the intergenerational injustice of unlimited borrowing!
Our government continues to show partiality to charters while they are cutting public school budgets. Using Clinton's Community Renewal Tax Relief Act, corporations get tax credits to start charters. Around major cities yuppies are creating upper middle class white charters that are funded by hedge funds. Charter schools are anti-democracy. The billionaires want to destroy public education, one of our most valued, democratic institutions. The 1% have bought complicit governors to destroy public schools by forcing students to take rigged tests with rigged cut scores. Then, the governor takes over the school and sells it to a corporation. This process targets poor minority students that have lower scores. They fire the teachers and put middle class women mostly into the poor class which contributes to more income inequality. Charters school are more segregated, and unless they select only the best students, a lot less successful than public schools that must hired certified teachers and follow rules. Charters operate in the shadows where their financial dealings are unknown. Charters are another form of corporate welfare using taxpayer money to make profit and hide the profits in the process. It is a corrupt system designed by corporate power.
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