Monday, May 27, 2013

More on privatizing education

I've written/posted about the cost to America as we increasingly privatize education. Here's even more proof of the inherent evils of the process.

From Daily Kos
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Nashville charter schools 'lose' problem students to public schools-just in time for testing


If all you care about are test scores, one of the big advantages charter schools have over traditional public schools is that they don't have to take every kid who shows up. Charters can push out the weak students, leaving them for someone else to deal with. That certainly looks like what's happening in Nashville, Tennessee, where the eight schools with the highest net loss of students are all charter schools, WSMV's Dennis Ferrier reports. The only schools losing more than 10 percent of their students are charters, which are losing up to 33 percent.

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