Harvard educated scum who was appointed by a Princeton educated POS friend of his to run the worst school Chicago which he purposefully ran in to the ground to close it. Then the guy who hired him could reopen the school as a private charter school for profit. From there he was appointed to run the Chicago public school system. He then shut down school after schools which were turned in to private charter schools & military academies.

Chicago is still the most segregated large city school system in the country still to this day because of that man.

He wants to do the same thing with all the schools in the country, run them in to the ground and close them, then have friends of his reopen them as private schools, it’s his standard MO. Easiest way to do it is screw the students by teaching less than complaining when the students graduate unable to even go to community colleges.

He wants to make public education so bad there is no choice, you MUST send your kids to private charter school, it's working...


Now to align it with Bill Gates

Snip; Small schools were the silver bullet Gates thought would transform secondary education.

In fact, he declared traditional high schools "obsolete."

He was wrong. Gates, who retired as the chief of Microsoft in 2008, and who now runs the Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropy, later conceded as much, saying that most of the money did not come close to accomplishing its goals, and much was wasted.

“Many of the small schools that we invested in did not improve students’ achievement in any significant way,” he wrote in his 2009 annual report about the foundation's workings, excerpts of which were published in the Washington Post.

He said, further, that schools that did not succeed were not bold enough in their reforms. He didn't say that perhaps the theory that small schools were the answer to the problems in city schools was flawed.

Now Gates is aligning himself with reform initiatives championed by President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. In fact, Gates helped out their $4 billion Race to the Top competition, which asks states to vie for federal education dollars by submitting proposals that include reforms Duncan favors. The foundation gave as much as $250,000 to each of 15 states so they could hire consultants to write their applications.

The initiatives that Duncan favors include the expansion of charter schools and judging teachers in part by how their students do on standardized tests. Much of the research on charter schools shows that they do no better than regular public schools with student achievement, and there is no evidence at all that linking teacher pay to test scores helps teachers improve.

[link to voices.washingtonpost.com]


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