[blind-democracy] Re: FW: How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Brazenly Using Coronavirus Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas

  • From: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:35:31 -0700

Sure, I can run with Exploited and Exploiter.
It fits with my argument that we have only two major divisions, at
least economically speaking.  We have those who provide all the labor,
and those who receive the benefits of all that labor.  The Exploited
are often well rewarded for their work, but they do not figure in any
meaningful decision making.  The Exploiters may do some of the same
work as their Exploitees, but not out of necessity, only for the
experience of knowing exactly what can be expected from their
Exploited.
There are blue collar Exploitees and White collars.  Some Exploited
live like your daughter and her husband, and some of them truly
believe that they have a chance to rise into the Exploiter Class.
Some actually believe that they do live in the Exploiter Class.
The Lower Exploited hate the white collar Exploited, calling them Uppity.
The higher up the ladder of "success" the Exploited go, the more
protective of the Exploiters they become, to the place where they
actually believe they are superior to the Lower Exploited.  But in
fact, All Exploited are under the spell of the constant hammering of
the propaganda shoved down their throats and into their ears and eyes
every day.
The Exploiters know full and well that they are far superior to all
Exploited for the simple reason that they can hire the Exploited to do
or say whatever they want them to do or say.  The Exploiters have all
the legitimate enforcement of their laws.  They own the judges and the
cops and the military might.
Yup.  Enforcers and Enforced fit very well.

Carl Jarvis

On 4/23/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Could you substitute, "exploited class", for "working class? It's more
inclusive and realistic. The other class is "the exploiter class".  My
son-in-law is part owner of a small business. My daughter is an attorney,
employed by a law firm. They live in a large house on a rather large piece
of property with an in ground swimming pool. But they live on the edge and
whether or not they're aware of it, I fear they're about to fall over the
edge.

Miriam

-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:37 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School
Movement Are Brazenly Using Coronavirus Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas

Didn't Alice meet Betsy DeVos when she followed the White Rabbit down the
rabbit hole?  "Off with her head!"
In fact the rape of America's public education could well be a tale from the
Grimm Brothers.
We working class Americans are being set upon on all sides.  I honestly
don't see the bottom of the Black Pitt Do you get the sense that I'm in a
dark mood?  All the years I thought we might have a light at the end of our
tunnel, and then the earth began to tremble, and the walls came crushing
down.
Carl Jarvis

On 4/23/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:




From: Jeff Bryant <info@ind.media>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 11:55 AM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Brazenly
Using Coronavirus Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas
















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How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Brazenly Using
Coronavirus Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas


The school privatization movement is not stopping as the country
remains locked down.

By Jeff Bryant

COVID-19 has shuttered public schools
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 across the nation, state governments are threatening to slash
education budgets
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 due to the economic collapse caused by the outbreak, and emergency
aid provided by the federal government is far short of what is needed,
according to a broad coalition
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 of education groups, but the charter school industry may benefit from
its unique status to seek public funding from multiple sources and
expand these schools into many more communities traumatized by the
pandemic and financial fallout.

As school districts reported huge problems
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 with converting classroom learning into online instruction delivered
to students’ homes, often due to lack of funding for internet-capable
devices and Wi-Fi hotspots, charter school proponents spread the news
of how their industry could take advantage of emergency aid.

Charter operators rolled out new marketing campaigns to lure families
to enroll in their schools. And in national and local news outlets,
advocates for charters, vouchers, and other forms of “school choice”
helped forge a new media narrative about how the shuttering of the
nation’s schools was an opportunity for parents and their children to
leave public schools.

Teachers in Los Angeles
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 and Oakland
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 urged their districts to stop charter school expansions and
co-locations, which they believe worsen the trauma that children in
their communities are experiencing due to the virus. But the Trump
administration and U.S.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have shown no signs of easing up
their campaigns to further privatize public schools.

“This is an opportunity,” said DeVos in an interview with right-wing
radio talk show
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 host Glenn Beck, “to collectively look very seriously at the fact
that K-12 education for too long has been very static and very stuck
in one method of delivering and making instruction available.”

A Gift from DeVos

On March 27, one of DeVos’s first reactions to the pandemic was to
urge
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 Congress to provide “microgrants” to help “the most disadvantaged
students,” an idea that struck knowledgeable education policy
observers—including retired teacher Peter Greene
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 and National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen Garcia
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—as being in sync with her longtime advocacy
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 for school vouchers. Somehow the mass shuttering of the nation’s
schools convinced her “that necessity has never been more evident.”

A week and a half later, DeVos unveiled an investment of more than
$200 million
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 in grants from the federal government to help 13 charter school
management companies expand.

It’s not at all clear the new grants come with new measures to oversee
how charters spend the money. If they don’t, that would be a big
mistake given a December 2019 report
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 from the Network for Public Education (NPE) that found that since the
charter grant program’s inception, approximately $1.17 billion
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 has gone to schools that either never opened or that opened and have
since shut down. The failure rate of charter startups funded by the
education department’s Charter School Program is 37 percent.

An earlier NPE report
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, which I coauthored, also found that many charter management
organizations that have received federal grants are “beset with
problems including conflicts of interest and profiteering.” Some of
the organizations receiving this new round of federal funding have these
same flaws.

For instance, the largest grant
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, $72 million over five years, is going to the IDEA charter chain,
which in January 2020 was publicly humiliated by reports in the
Houston Chronicle
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 for its plan to use $2 million in taxpayer money to buy a luxury
private jet. The Chronicle also revealed the company had spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on tickets and luxury box
seats at San Antonio Spurs NBA games—over $400,000 in the most recent
year.

Another recent report
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, in the Texas Monitor, revealed IDEA executives spent over $800,000
on luxury travel between 2017 and 2019, including private jets and
limos. In one of these larks, IDEA CEO Tom Torkelson took a private
jet to Tampa to meet with DeVos “to discuss ‘education philanthropy,’”
the Texas Monitor reports. Torkelson recently resigned
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.

Another charter chain benefitting from DeVos’s generosity is Mater
Academy, which received the second-largest grant
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 of $57.1 million. Mater Academy is affiliated
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 with for-profit education company Academica.

As NPE executive director Carol Burris explained
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 in the Washington Post, three schools operated by Academica in
Florida, including two in the Mater chain, were the subjects of a
government investigation that found “related party transactions”
between Academica and “a real estate company that leased both
buildings and security services to the schools.” The companies were
also connected to founders of both the Mater Academies and Academica.

An extensive investigation of Academica’s business practices conducted
by privatization watchdog group In the Public Interest in 2016 found
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 in addition to providing management services, Academica also leased
facilities to many of its schools and tended to charge significantly
higher rents than what non-Academica charters were made to pay.

Each of these charter school operations deserves close scrutiny of
their business practices, but DeVos has chosen to reward them with
over $129 million in federal funding at a time when public school
districts are in crisis and likely face severe budget cuts.

How Charters Double-Dip

When Congress and the Trump administration announced plans in late
March to send
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 $13.5 billion in emergency aid to public schools, the charter school
industry insisted it deserves its cut of the rescue funds too.

Writing in the pro-charter media outlet The 74, Nina Rees, executive
director of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS),
said
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 DeVos and governors should encourage districts to release these funds
to schools “without regard to differences in school model,” meaning
not to exclude charters.

In her letter
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 telling governors where to apply for the emergency funds, DeVos
specified the money was intended to support “schools (including
charter schools and non-public schools),” meaning funds could be spent
on charter schools and private schools.

Days before, Rees insisted charter schools be regarded as public
schools and eligible for emergency aid, her organization also advised
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 charter schools to apply for federal rescue funds for small
businesses devastated by the pandemic.

According to Education Week
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, charter lobbying groups including NAPCS have “urged charter schools
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… to consider applying for the $349 billion Paycheck Protection
Program
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, a short-term loan program designed to help businesses cover payroll
expenses.”

Rees, who previously worked
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 as a deputy assistant for domestic policy to former Vice President
Dick Cheney, justified the request by claiming to the Education Week
reporter
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, “The last recession hit charter schools pretty significantly” and
that the fallout from COVID-19 might adversely affect “private giving
to support their operations.”

But in the same article, NPE’s Carol Burris pointed out
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 that “charter schools have had no drop in the funding stream” as a
result of the pandemic, because state funding for both charter schools
and school districts has already been set for the current academic year.

“Once again, the charter sector, through the lobbying efforts of Nina
Rees… worked behind the scenes to gain fiscal advantage for the
privately operated schools they claim are public schools,” Burris
wrote
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 in comments on the personal blog of education historian Diane Ravitch.

“Charters claim to be ‘public schools’ when that’s where the money is,”
Ravitch added. “But when the money is available for small businesses,
they claim to be small businesses.”

Charter school promoters defend
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 their duplicity by pointing out that the law says nonprofit
organizations are eligible for the funds, and charter schools are
nonprofits. But public schools are not eligible for these funds, so
why should charters, if they truly are public schools, get to change
stripes to suit the occasion?

‘Disaster Capitalism’

While most would agree that the current disruption to children’s
learning is a disaster, fans of charter schools and other forms of
school choice see an opportunity.

“It isn’t too early for parents to plan ahead for next year and beyond
when school doors re-open,” wrote
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 Joe Pantorno for New York City news outlet AMNY. “Charter schools
have become a viable and attractive option for a child’s education,”
insisted Pantorno, a sports editor
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=eAHLLcY7nVv3UfnYnUYEk0VimyyCnmJtZLjES6JNP8I>
.

In some districts where schools have struggled with the transition to
online, charter schools have stepped up marketing campaigns
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, opened
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 their enrollments mid-year to take in more students, and provided
free computers to lure families away from public schools. Online
charters in Utah
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 and elsewhere have run advertisements urging parents to leave their
public schools and enroll in privately operated online academies,
which have continued to operate “largely unimpeded,” reported
<https://go.ind.media/e/546932/ols-during-coronavirus-crisis-/f6mgxz/6
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 Rachel Cohen for The 74.

In Oklahoma, the state’s largest online charter, currently the subject
of a lawsuit because its for-profit operator refuses to comply with a
state investigation, “has had teachers recruiting new students on social
media,”
according
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 to Tulsa World. The school is accused of recruiting “ghost students,”
explained
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 John Thompson for the Progressive, “who were technically enrolled but
received minimal instruction from teachers.” Thompson also reports
that the owners are alleged to have hidden their school’s low
graduation rates and used the school’s management company to divert
state funds for their own personal use.

In Florida, the state board of education is considering a request
<https://go.ind.media/e/546932/school-preparing-to-blast-off-/f6mgy6/6
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 from Florida Virtual School (FLVS), the state’s online K-12 school,
for
$4.3 million in technology upgrades to boost its current capacity of
170,000 students to 470,000. FLVS, a nonprofit, also inked a contract
<https://go.ind.media/e/546932/ting-well-with-some-educators-/f6mgy8/6
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 at the end of March for $525,000 to provide online schooling in Alaska.

To guard against online charters trying to profit in a crisis, Oregon
announced their school closure orders applied to online charters too
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 because losing students to online schools would negatively affect
public school budgets. Pennsylvania passed a bill freezing payments to
online charter schools
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, even if more students enroll in these schools, to prevent the
financial drain that would happen when parents flee public schools.

“As the pandemic forces schools to innovate, Americans will get a
glimpse into what the future of learning looks like,” predicted
<https://go.ind.media/e/546932/hools-covid-19-mercatus-v1-pdf/f6mgyg/6
05762911?h=eAHLLcY7nVv3UfnYnUYEk0VimyyCnmJtZLjES6JNP8I>
 Jonathan Butcher, a senior policy analyst at two right-wing think tanks.

Butcher’s claim appeared in a policy brief for the Mercatus Center, a
privatization advocate at George Mason University, which is funded
<https://go.ind.media/e/546932/index-php-Mercatus-Center/f6mgyj/605762
911?h=eAHLLcY7nVv3UfnYnUYEk0VimyyCnmJtZLjES6JNP8I>
 by the family foundation of Charles Koch and his late brother David.
COVID-19 “could change education content delivery forever,” Butcher
wrote, forcing schools to enter into “public-private partnerships with
virtual learning providers.”

In a critical review of Butcher’s brief, Kevin Welner, a project
director at the National Education Policy Center, warned
<https://go.ind.media/e/546932/iles-reviews-TTR20Welner-0-pdf/f6mgyl/6
05762911?h=eAHLLcY7nVv3UfnYnUYEk0VimyyCnmJtZLjES6JNP8I>
 that heedless efforts to strike deals with online education companies
were “a clear example of ‘disaster capitalism’—the exploitation of
instability and crisis to advance marketization.”

Welner pointed to a substantial body of evidence that online schools
are ill-suited to address the broad purposes of schooling, which often
include providing meals and health care services. These operations
also tend to generate very poor academic results and under-serve
struggling learners, especially students with disabilities.

Rather than rushing headlong into privatizing the public education
system, Welner concluded that when the nation emerges from this dark
period, “the real lesson for many Americans is a renewed appreciation
for vital roles played by their children’s schools and teachers.”

Jeff Bryant is a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our
Schools
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, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a communications
consultant, freelance writer, advocacy journalist, and director of the
Education Opportunity Network, a strategy and messaging center for
progressive education policy. His award-winning commentary and
reporting routinely appear in prominent online news outlets, and he
speaks frequently at national events about public education policy.
Follow him on Twitter @jeffbcdm
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