Charter Schools – a “Gotcha” Game in Education
July 17, 2016
Charter Schools – a “Gotcha” Game in Education
By Cris Shardelman
As parents, teachers, students, and voters rightfully attempt to repeal use of Common Core–the assessments, Achieve, Data Gathering, a National Curriculum, and a career/work certificate, they are led to believe Charter Schools are the escape route from each of these policies or issues. They are led to believe the unions are the impediment forcing all of those unwanted issues on public schools. They are also led to believe that the Supreme Court Decision which declared Charter Schools unconstitutional was only pressure from the unions.
So what is the Charter School”gotcha”? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has huge investments into each one of those mentioned issues, and has funded both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
The other “gotcha” is that both the Charter School Initiative I-1240 and the just passed E2SSB 6194 Charter School law, (which will be challenged again), have binding language that places the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) in charge of the entire Charter School System. Sec. 110(f)(3) states, “All authorizers must develop and follow chartering policies and practices that are consistent with the principles and standards for quality charter authorizing developed by the national association of charter school authorizers in at least the following areas:…”
As written, the appointed state authorizers must adhere to NACSA in the infrastructure, evaluation of charter applications, the binding contracts, the oversight and evaluation, and renewal or closure of the charter schools, and whatever policies, principles or standards that NACSA will mandate for future charter schools.
Gates Foundation also funds NACSA.
Since Gates paid $6 per signature, and invested millions for media sound bites to be able to pass I-1240 by less than 1%; and since Gates funded organizations that lobbied for the passage of E2SSB6194; and remembering Gates funds NACSA, I have questions for your consideration.
Is it likely Charter Schools will ever be the escape, or are Charter Schools the method to lock in all of the above listed issues Gates and other foundations stand to benefit from? Can you then ever retrieve the education you have given away?
Since Gates Foundation has membership in the United Nation’s Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it isn’t surprising to find both I-1240 and E2SSB6194 have provision for foreign nations’ to operate charters in the U.S., such as the Gulen Turkish Muslim Charters now operating more charter schools than any other entity in the U.S. and currently under investigation by the FBI for funding irregularities.
I encourage you to read I-1240 and E2SSB6194 to determine whether you want to forfeit your right to elected representation replaced by appointed people, whom you can neither recall, nor un-elect from controlling education. Note how instruction and school management and operation can be contracted out to corporations you don’t know–contracts controlled through NACSA, using state authorizers, who follow NACSA’s mandates, yet cannot be held liable for the actions or omissions of the charters they authorize, unlike educators in existing schools. Check out “A Brief Audit of Bill Gates’ Common Core Spending“. You will discover a Gates “gotcha”.
Tags: charters
Charter Schools – a “Gotcha” Game in Education
By Cris Shardelman
As parents, teachers, students, and voters rightfully attempt to repeal use of Common Core–the assessments, Achieve, Data Gathering, a National Curriculum, and a career/work certificate, they are led to believe Charter Schools are the escape route from each of these policies or issues. They are led to believe the unions are the impediment forcing all of those unwanted issues on public schools. They are also led to believe that the Supreme Court Decision which declared Charter Schools unconstitutional was only pressure from the unions.
So what is the Charter School”gotcha”? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has huge investments into each one of those mentioned issues, and has funded both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
The other “gotcha” is that both the Charter School Initiative I-1240 and the just passed E2SSB 6194 Charter School law, (which will be challenged again), have binding language that places the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) in charge of the entire Charter School System. Sec. 110(f)(3) states, “All authorizers must develop and follow chartering policies and practices that are consistent with the principles and standards for quality charter authorizing developed by the national association of charter school authorizers in at least the following areas:…”
As written, the appointed state authorizers must adhere to NACSA in the infrastructure, evaluation of charter applications, the binding contracts, the oversight and evaluation, and renewal or closure of the charter schools, and whatever policies, principles or standards that NACSA will mandate for future charter schools.
Gates Foundation also funds NACSA.
Since Gates paid $6 per signature, and invested millions for media sound bites to be able to pass I-1240 by less than 1%; and since Gates funded organizations that lobbied for the passage of E2SSB6194; and remembering Gates funds NACSA, I have questions for your consideration.
Is it likely Charter Schools will ever be the escape, or are Charter Schools the method to lock in all of the above listed issues Gates and other foundations stand to benefit from? Can you then ever retrieve the education you have given away?
Since Gates Foundation has membership in the United Nation’s Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it isn’t surprising to find both I-1240 and E2SSB6194 have provision for foreign nations’ to operate charters in the U.S., such as the Gulen Turkish Muslim Charters now operating more charter schools than any other entity in the U.S. and currently under investigation by the FBI for funding irregularities.
I encourage you to read I-1240 and E2SSB6194 to determine whether you want to forfeit your right to elected representation replaced by appointed people, whom you can neither recall, nor un-elect from controlling education. Note how instruction and school management and operation can be contracted out to corporations you don’t know–contracts controlled through NACSA, using state authorizers, who follow NACSA’s mandates, yet cannot be held liable for the actions or omissions of the charters they authorize, unlike educators in existing schools. Check out “A Brief Audit of Bill Gates’ Common Core Spending“. You will discover a Gates “gotcha”.
Tags: charters