But we’ll have plenty of thought control
A few months ago I opined that the drift in our educational system (so well documented by Jonathan Pelto at Wait, What?) is toward the corporate model that has transformed the rest of the country. I predicted that we would soon see most of our education dollars going to pay the CEO's of privately run for-profit “education” delivery systems. Once they get their puppet politicians (Here's looking at you, Dannel) to deliver the public school systems into their grasps, the money will really start flowing to the top in earnest. Well, it's already happening:
A study of charter schools by the League of Women Voters in Florida found that they spend more on administration than public schools and they don’t get better academic results.
“In Hillsborough, three charter schools that have opened since 2011 are owned by Charter Schools USA, a for-profit corporation, and these three alone enroll more than 20 percent of all charter students. In 2011, Woodmont Charter School, one of these three, expended 44 percent of its total revenue on instruction and 42 percent on management fees and leases.
“By contrast, traditional Hillsborough County schools spend at least 86 percent of revenue on instruction. Woodmont had FCAT scores of D for 2012 and F for 2013, and this is not unusual, since charter schools composed 50 percent of all F-rated Florida schools in 2011. Meanwhile, the six traditional public elementary schools and one middle school within 1 mile of Woodmont all have higher FCAT scores.
Once they get a lock on the educational system they will find various ways of extorting more money from the taxpayer and returning ever less. For remember, unlike School Superintendents, they are licensed to bribe contribute to the people holding the purse strings. How depressing is it that we won't even be able to educate our kids (if you can call what they'll be doing educating) without enriching the next generation of Koch brothers.
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