Event: Discussion Group - Charter Schools and the Attack on Public EducationTime: 2 PM
Day & Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Note: RSVP to bill.linville@gmail.com or call 608-852-6998
Location:
Karavas Place (a Greek restaurant)
162 West 4th Street
(corner of Carmine St. near 6th Ave)
Transportation: Take the A/C/D/E/F to W 4th Street
Background:
Join an informal discussion group on LA teacher Sarah Knopp's, "Charter Schools and the Attack on Public Education" in International Socialist Review 62, available here.
If you would like a physical copy of the magazine with the article for $2, contact Bill. If you have other suggestions for supplementary readings, please let Bill know so that he can send them out to the folks who have RSVP'ed.
From Chicago to New Orleans to New York City, charter schools are being proposed as alternatives to failing and underfunded schools under public control. We already know that some of the schools that are being closed in NYC are to be replace by charter schools. Join a discussion with other progressive educators on this important issue.
Questions To Be Explored:
Transportation: Take the A/C/D/E/F to W 4th Street
Background:
Join an informal discussion group on LA teacher Sarah Knopp's, "Charter Schools and the Attack on Public Education" in International Socialist Review 62, available here.
If you would like a physical copy of the magazine with the article for $2, contact Bill. If you have other suggestions for supplementary readings, please let Bill know so that he can send them out to the folks who have RSVP'ed.
From Chicago to New Orleans to New York City, charter schools are being proposed as alternatives to failing and underfunded schools under public control. We already know that some of the schools that are being closed in NYC are to be replace by charter schools. Join a discussion with other progressive educators on this important issue.
Questions To Be Explored:
- What are the origins of charter schools and what forces are behind the movement for charter schools?
- How is this movement tied to the attack on teachers' unions?
- How do we respond to parents or teachers who are attracted to charter schools because of failures of the public school system?
- How are charter schools being pushed by private forces?
- What do we say about "progressive" charter schools?
- How are non-profit charter schools under simliar pressures as for profit charter schools?
- Why have for profit charter schools failed to turn a profit?
- What talking points can we use with other teachers and parents on this issue?
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