This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Monday, October 03, 2005
Chairman Bennett Steps Down from K-12, Inc.
Since the education privatizers came to power in 2001, Bill Bennett has carted of at least 14,000,000 federal education dollars to get his virtual home school business started. Today K-12, as it is called, announced that Chairman Bennett has stepped down from his leadership role in K-12's role in the fight to end public education in the U. S. See K-12's shameless groveling for Katrina-relief dollars here.
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