Last month a panel of Democrats ignored the prospective anger of teacher union bosses and talked about how charter schools regularly turn out to be the best schools the public education establishment has to offer.
Democrats for Education Reform hosted the panel, along with the Massachusetts Charter Public School Assn.The event was aired on C-SPAN and can be watched here.
Participants included Joe Williams, author of Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education, Kevin Chavous, former member of the Council of the District of Columbia and chair of the Council's Committee on Education, Libraries and Recreation, (he's the author of Serving Our Children: Charter Schools and the Reform of American Public Education), and Andrea Silbert, a candidate for the 2006 Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
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I've got that book by Joe Williams. It's powerful, going into the horrific realities of the New York City school system as run by the ed establishment and the American Federation of Teachers. The interesting thing Williams demonstrates in passing, without ever calling attention to it, is that politicized education is, per se, corrupted education....
Posted by Steven | January 3, 2008 3:31 PM