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Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in New Orleans
- adron 16y agoNow if this can just be replicated in more places, we may get a better school system. I'd bet though, that the teacher's union is the greatest opponent to this type of thing.
- uuilly 16y agoThe teachers unions hate school choice. They managed to kill the program in DC even though parents were really happy with the results.
- Adam503 16y agoTeachers unions hate segregated schools. "School choice" is just the latest mask the right spin doctors have cooked up to dress up school segregation in.
- uuilly 16y agoIt's mostly minorities demanding, and benefiting from School Choice. If it's segregation, it has a funny way of showing it.
- grandalf 16y agoIf anyone wants to discuss startup ideas around schools and school choice please let me know.
- skyjumper 16y agoAny reform involving private schools in the US needs to be wary of its effect on ideological and cultural divides. We already prefer to live near like-minded people, it's not a stretch to assume we'd send our kids to like-minded schools. To be more specific, we don't want our school system to become a proxy for culture wars - individual schools marketing themselves to parents as a place which builds proper (liberals|conservatives|tea partiers|greens|etc). No matter what shape reform takes, society needs to make sure its people get a well rounded education.
- Adam503 16y agoThat's not a silver lining. That's textbook "Shock Doctrine" straight out of Naomi Klein's book. Run over all resistance to right wing extremist ideas when the citizens are still reeling from a disaster and are too stunned about a child being dead or their house being gone to be thinking about advancing political agendas. http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine