Obama's 'Race To The Top' Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings

[Riley18]

1. So basically for poor schools it is now a

race to extinction, but for wealthy schools it is a journey to "excellence" - only now their kids won't have pesky competition.

The end result the government and their wealthy backers are aiming for is to end free education. An extra bonus is to take hold of one of the last remaining pots of money they could not get their hands on. So corporate charter school get tax money without accountability - sort of what the banks got - only not so much in a direct sum like the bailouts. Although most of those schools do keep most of the money since they work for profit. They may call their profit salary, but those high salaries never reach teachers. They are annual workers with no say or control over instruction. Instead of successful public school models of instruction being copied by corporate charter schools, Race to the Top forces public school to copy the corporate school model.