This is dynamite stuff. Haven't yet read the City Pages piece linked below, but this purchasing of ideologies for inculcating schools and students with right-wing agendas would follow very nicely the 30-year quest to replace local boards with conservative purists.
There was something funny about a few of Peebles' statements a week or so ago that it got me to wondering about her perspectives on public education. When you can't out-and-out privatize public education as legislatures and the Bush Congress have been doing, you staff education entities - like Yecke's state Ed dept. and now, superintendent ranks with indoctrinated leadership. If the money's available from some guy with billions to spend on this stuff, it's very tough to sift through the sham. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul -- on 6/30/04 11:35 AM, List manager wrote: > From City Pages: > > All three of the finalists considered for Minneapolis's top job have > ties to a superintendent training program run by a California > billionaire with a conservative political agenda for school reform. > Hand-in-glove with President Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind > initiative, that agenda includes using corporate and military leaders > to run school systems more like businesses, using stock-analysis > techniques to rate schools' cost-effectiveness, and creating ever > increasing numbers of charter schools to put competitive pressure on > public schools. > > http://www.citypages.com/databank/25/1230/article12257.asp > > David Brauer REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
