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11-45 Susan Barrett & Emily Crum | Corportization of Education

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Host David Delk talks with the two founders of Oregon - Save Our Schools, a new grassroots parent/teacher alliance setting as its mission to raise t...
Host David Delk talks with the two founders of Oregon - Save Our Schools, a new grassroots parent/teacher alliance setting as its mission to raise the voices to stop the corporatization and privatization of our public school system. Stand For Children has a corporate agenda of expanding charter schools. They see a corporate strategy of divide and conquer - parents against teachers. Discusses problem of No Child Left Behind, with testing and the use of testing to be the basis for making school funding decisions. Who benefits from increased funding? Testing makes big profits for test writing and administrating corporations. In Oregon they look at LearnWorks and their corporate connections and agenda. LearnWorks is in part funded by the Gates Foundation. Less
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