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Florida policymakers trying to privatize entire state public school system
http://www.americablog.com/201...
The plan is to allow venture capitalists to step in with for-profit virtual schools, cut the costs of traditional public schools, and make bundles of cash ... education on the cheap at the expense of children's education.
Who cares that these virtual schools may have a poor or non-existent track record, or that virtual school teachers often have hundreds of students each? While "attending" virtual school, many students have no adult supervision. Profit, not educational excellence, is the motive.
Floridian legislators are passing bills that destroy the public school system, much like those here in NH are trying to do.
The Florida Legislature in the past two sessions has passed a flurry of bills to distract educators and parents by requiring every student to take and pass a college prep curriculum to graduate high school, eliminating teacher tenure, requiring end-of-course exams for every subject taught (without providing funding), and requiring every student to take at least one virtual school class to graduate. ... The writing is on the wall.
