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Lansing State Journal • “Going Private? — Snyder, Republicans Put New Focus On Merits Of Privatization”
Lansing State Journal • “Going Private? — Snyder, Republicans Put New Focus On Merits Of Privatization”
• http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110515/NEWS04/105150528/GOING-PRIVATE-Snyder-Republicans-put-new-focus-merits-privatization
• http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110515/NEWS04/105150528/GOING-PRIVATE-Snyder-Republicans-put-new-focus-merits-privatization
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My concern for the future of education in Michigan comes from experience, from reading the reports of what is happening across the country as we speak, and from knowing the history of what happened with these same types of programmatic purges in the past. My concern is not based on worries about the unknown — these groups and their aims are known quantities.
My concern for the future of education in Michigan comes from experience, from reading the reports of what is happening across the country as we speak, and from knowing the history of what happened with these same types of programmatic purges in the past. My concern is not based on worries about the unknown — these groups and their aims are known quantities.
If the program being pushed here were really as “unique” as its pushers advertize it to be, that would be one thing, but the current push is is not the least bit new or unique, not by a long shot. All the same brands of patent nonsense notions have been sold to the public before, on a periodic basis over the last hundred years, always by the same brands of business-minded factions, people who lack the least bit of knowledge about what it takes to educate anyone, but who remain dead set on running education like a business or a factory with all the arrogant ignorance of their bean-counter efficiency.
If the program being pushed here were really as “unique” as its pushers advertize it to be, that would be one thing, but the current push is not the least bit new or unique, not by a long shot. All the same brands of patent nonsense notions have been sold to the public before, on a periodic basis over the last hundred years, always by the same brands of business-minded factions, people who lack the least bit of knowledge about what it takes to educate anyone, but who remain dead set on running education like a business or a factory with all the arrogant ignorance of their bean-counter efficiency.
Ten or twenty years go by, a decade or a generation gets wasted on what always turns out to be an extremely expensive excuse for “efficiency”, and then people find themselves forced to return to their senses.
Ten or twenty years go by, a decade or a generation gets wasted on what always turns out to be an extremely expensive excuse for “efficiency”, and then people find themselves forced to return to their senses.
I don't think so …
I don't think so …
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Comment 11
Michigan 4 Sale?
I think we have to recognize that the wool being pulled over our eyes in the public sector of education extends to the entire public sphere. Just by way of one indication, here's a timely article that just popped up on my newsfeed —
Dylan Ratigan • “America for Sale : Is Goldman Sachs Buying Your City?”
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-ratigan/america-for-sale-is-goldm_b_877285.html
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In Chicago, it's the sale of parking meters to the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. In Indiana, it's the sale of the northern toll road to a Spanish and Australian joint venture. In Wisconsin it's public health and food programs, in California it's libraries. It's water treatment plants, schools, toll roads, airports, and power plants. It's Amtrak. There are revolving doors of corrupt politicians, big banks, and rating agencies. There are conflicts of interest. It's bipartisan.
And it's coming to a city near you — it may already be there. We're talking about the sale of public assets to private investors. You may have heard of one-off deals, but what we'll be exploring with the Huffington Post is the scale and scope of what is a national and organized campaign to shift the way we govern ourselves. In an era of increasingly stretched local and state budgets, privatization of public assets may be so tempting to local politicians that the trend seems unstoppable. Yet, public outrage has stopped and slowed a number of initiatives.
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