Hey Gov. Baker!

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/23/confidential-charter-school-memo-blasted-outline-hostile-takeover



Critic says billionaire's plan to "charterize" Los Angeles public schools is "a ham-handed effort to circumvent democracy in a major American city."

Confidential Charter School Memo Blasted as 'Outline for a Hostile Takeover'
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

A California billionaire is enlisting other wealthy backers in a $490 million scheme to place half of the students in the Los Angeles Unified School District into charter schools over the next eight years—a plan at least one critic says would "do away with democratically controlled, publicly accountable education in LA."

The Los Angeles Times obtained a confidential 44-page proposal, "The Great Public Schools Now Initiative," drafted by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and other charter advocates.

"Los Angeles is uniquely positioned to create the largest, highest-performing charter sector in the nation," the executive summary reads. "Such an exemplar would serve as a model for all large cities to follow."

The document outlines the following three objectives that would serve to overthrow the current public system:
* to create 260 new high-quality charter schools;
* to generate 130,000 high-quality charter seats;
* to reach 50 percent charter market share.


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Whose playbook are you using in your quest to privatize all public schools in Massachusetts?