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Beware Privatizers Running for Local School Boards; at Diane Ravitch

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 "The most ruinous privatization tactic is for privatizers to take control of boards of education Bill Phillis, founder of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding writes: Anti-public school advocates run for seats on boards of education to attempt to completely privatize districts. It is not hard to see why professional educators, who have invested in and achieved significant graduate and undergraduate education training, oppose this business strategy for staffing classrooms.TFA is funded by billionaire elites, including the Bill Gates, Eli Broad and Walton Family Foundations." Read ...

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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