Reddit mentions of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

Diane Ravitch is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the US on education. Her book, "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" exposes the fraud of the movement for voucher and privatized for-profit schools.

It is simply a fraud intended to dismantle and privatize all public schools in America. No charter school or private school has demonstrated that it can out perform a public school on a district wide basis without discriminating among the students it teaches. Public schools frequently out-perform NCLB privatized or voucher counterparts.

What public schools don't do is channel taxpayer $$$ to cronies of Texas republican'ts.

knee jerk? The privatization of public education through charters and vouchers has been documented extensively for at least 2 decades.

Here are some links:

https://dianeravitch.net/category/charter-schools/

https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/category/charters/page/5/

https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Error-Privatization-Movement-PublicSchools-ebook/dp/B00BRUQ376

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charter-schools-and-commitment_us_58fbab26e4b0f02c3870eafa

The people privatizing public education are the same ones denying us Medicaire4All. They are the same as those trying to gut SS. The same ones that promote our addiction to fossil fuel.

Conservatives have been trying to destroy public education since it began and now charter schools are their latest mechanism. Instead of fully funding public neighborhood schools, they would rather siphon money towards private schools. They are literally resegregating our schools. That's why the NAACP has called for a moratorium on charters: http://www.naacp.org/latest/statement-regarding-naacps-resolution-moratorium-charter-schools/

Resegregation:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/05/why-southern-schools-are-becoming-more-segregated/528540/

The NLRB has declared charter schools private:

https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/266763/in-the-eyes-of-the-nlrb-charter-schools-are-private-not-public/

and a charter chain in CA defended itself in court against accountability by declaring itself as a private entity that does not need to submit to public accountability.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/06/22/problems-with-charter-schools-that-you-wont-hear-betsy-devos-talk-about/?utm_term=.153d8734e30f

This isnt knee-jerk

Charters also divide communities:

https://dianeravitch.net/2012/08/05/how-charter-schools-divide-communities/

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/chris-christie-red-bank-charter-school-education-reform