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Education: The "Big Enchilada"
http://www.billtotten.blogspot.com/2007/08/big-enchilada.html
Some years ago, a friend who works on Wall Street handed me a stock-market prospectus in which a group of analysts at an investment-banking firm known as Montgomery Securities described the financial benefits to be derived from privatizing our public schools. "The education industry", according to these analysts, "represents, in our opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public control" that "have either voluntarily opened" or, they note in pointed terms, have "been forced" to open up to private enterprise.
Indeed, they write, "the education industry represents
the largest market opportunity" since health-care services were privatized during the 1970s... "The larger developing opportunity is in the K-12 EMO market, led by private elementary school providers..."
From the point of view of private profit, one of these analysts enthusiastically observes, "the K-12 market is the Big Enchilada."
The World Bank as Prime Mover in the Global Privatization of Public Education: Mexico
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022434264
Arne says sequester will force large Title I, Special Ed cuts. Meanwhile billions go to "reformers"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022436415
Obama’s Universal Preschool Proposal = Race to the Top for Tots (more education deform)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022378733
The roots of education deform go way back, & current developments follow previously outlined path...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022281934
RAVITCH: Conservative think tank praises Obama for standing up to teachers' unions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101642419
The goal of education deform: "Public schools" to equal "Welfare schools"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021954716
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