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Related: About this forumNetflix CEO Reed Hastings wants to ‘steadlily’ replace school boards with charter schools
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/17/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-wants-to-steadlily-replace-school-boards-with-charter-schools/Video from a gathering of charter school administrators shows Netflix CEO Reed Hastings telling charter school administrators they should be working toward eventually replacing public school district boards.
If we go to the general public and we say, Heres an argument why you should get rid of school boards, of course no ones going to go for that, Hastings said in his speech, captured at the annual California Charter School Association conference by the advocacy group Stop Rocketship. So what we have to do is to work with school districts to grow steadily, and the work ahead is really hard because were at eight percent of students in California, whereas in New Orleans theyre at 90 percent, so we have a lot of catchup to do.
The video also shows Hastings vastly overrating the performance of charter schools in New Orleans.
The overall results in New Orleans, across the whole city, are amazing, Hastings said. Theyre rapidly rising, much faster growth than anywhere in Louisiana.
However, Newsweek reported in September 2013 that the performance of the Recovery School District, which is dominated by charter schools and took in 75 percent of the citys schoolchildren in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has been sub-standard at best:
Seventy-nine percent of RSD charters are still rated D or F by the Louisiana Department of Education. (To be sure, some charter operators argue that the grading system in Louisiana, which keeps moving the bar upward, doesnt sufficiently capture the improvements schools have achieved.) Sci is one of two RSD high schools to earn a B; there are no A-rated open-admission schools. In a school system with about 42,000 mostly poor African-American kids, every year thousands are out of school at any given timebecause they are on suspension, have dropped out, or are incarcerated. Even at successful schools, such as the highly regarded Sci Academy, large numbers of students never make it to graduation, and others are unlikely to make it through college.
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wants to ‘steadlily’ replace school boards with charter schools (Original Post)
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Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)1. Well, I knew I didn't want to bring Netflix into my home
Now, besides being cheap, I have a good reason.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)2. well, crapsickles.
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)3. Time to lose Netflix.
Done
Squinch
(52,770 posts)4. Yep. Dropping Netflix! Thanks for posting this.
AllyCat
(17,108 posts)5. Can we please get non-education people out of
Making policy for education?
AnneD
(15,774 posts)6. Why do these egotistical CEO's....
think that just because they have success in one area that they know everything about everything. It only shows me what fools they really are.