[Occupymendocino] Fwd: What Wal-Mart is doing to charter schools

[Irene L. Malone]

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> From: Randi Weingarten <e-activist at aft.org>
> Date: June 29, 2015 12:32:52 PM PDT
> To: irenelsm at mcn.org
> Subject: What Wal-Mart is doing to charter schools
> Reply-To: e-activist at aft.org
>
>
> Irene,
>
> More than $200 million in fraud, waste and self-dealing.
>
> Schools closing midyear, leaving children without a school and  
> teachers out of work.
>
> That’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to a new report.
>
> Charters have a role to play in education—in fact, it was former  
> AFT President Al Shanker who first proposed charters as a way to  
> empower teachers to try new techniques and inform all public schools.
>
> Sadly, many charters have simply become a way to cash in on kids.  
> And while bad actors abuse the charter system, the Walton Family  
> Foundation is spending hundreds of millions to promote rapid  
> expansion of charters and lobby against regulation and oversight.
>
> Tell the Walton heirs that charter schools must be held to high  
> standards, and demand they sign on to the Charter School  
> Accountability Agenda.
>
> This is common sense. Charter schools that receive public money  
> must be held to the same high standards as our traditional public  
> schools to ensure they’re serving kids and using tax dollars wisely.
>
> Public school advocates have produced an 11-point accountability  
> agenda that would reduce charter school corruption and stop the  
> weakening of neighborhood public schools. But as long as the Walton  
> Family Foundation’s grantees are advocating against regulation and  
> accountability, bad actors will continue to abuse the system.
>
> The agenda calls for increased accountability through transparency,  
> protecting neighborhood schools and protecting taxpayer funds.
>
> We can make a big difference through commonsense steps like  
> requiring charter boards to hold open meetings, ensuring charters  
> aren’t destroying neighboring schools and prohibiting schools from  
> using taxpayer dollars for advertising and marketing.
>
> The accountability agenda protects kids, neighborhoods, districts  
> and taxpayers from abuse and fraud.
>
> Tell the Wal-Mart heirs and their foundation to sign on to the  
> accountability agenda.
>
> We need to ensure that the people who operate charter schools are  
> working to educate and help kids, not to cash in on kids. It starts  
> by ensuring accountability in charter schools.
>
> In unity,
> Randi Weingarten
> AFT President
>
> Read “Brought to You by Wal-Mart? How the Walton Family  
> Foundation’s Ideological Pursuit Is Damaging Charter Schooling”
>
> Read the Charter School Accountability Agenda
>
				
> Randi Weingarten, President
> Lorretta Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer | Mary Cathryn Ricker,  
> Executive Vice President
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