The state's biggest charter school operator last week refused to testify at a state legislative hearing into whether Ohio's laws give too much power to for-profit charter school companies.It would seem that the question has been answered.
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
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Mr. White Hat, David Brennan, Refuses to Testify
White Hat Management's David Brennan has built an corporate welfare empire in Ohio by putting $1.5 million into the pockets of Republican politicians since 2000. Now he is being sued by 10 of the charter schools' Boards that he owns, which would seem to raise some red flags for politicians who, thus far, have looked the other way, even as White Hat has preyed on the poorest kids in Ohio. From Cincinatti.com:
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It's chump change compared to Brennan's $1.5 million in donations, but one of White Hat's former VPs, Quentin Messer, donated $250 to Democrats for Education Reform. Messer was also a Broad Resident, Class of '09.
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