By Valerie Strauss, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, January 6, 2022
The recent announcement by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg that he was donating $750 million to help expand charter schools in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas sparked another round of discussion in parts of the education world about the best way to improve public schools.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bloomberg declared that “American public education is broken” and that charter schools — which are publicly funded but operated outside of traditional school districts — are the answer.
This piece looks at a different answer. It was written by Donald Cohen, who just published a book with co-author Allen Mikaelian titled “The Privatization of Everything,” that looks at the consequences of privatization on just about every part of our lives, including education.
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