Education Reform: Is Your City Ready?

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What does it take for a city to be ready for school system reform? These days, it's hard not to answer that question by simply saying, "Well, is the teachers' union still active?"

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with an assist from the conservative American Enterprise Institute, tried to assess which cities are the country were best perched to revamp their educational apparatuses.

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Comments

[msladydeborah]

12:02 PM on 08/29/2010

I live in Ohio. I didn't even seen any of our cities listed in the article. My home state is receiving Race to the Top Funding. I have my own opinion about my local school district being prepared. But the article didn't provide me with much information. It is a great info-article for charter and tuition based schools.

I have already provided educational opportunities for three chidren. It was a mixture of public and priviate schools. It was not an easy production job on our end. I had to work part-time and do a lot of budget cutting to pay for those educations. That was my choice and I do not regret it. But, I also pay taxes to support our community school district. I find myself questioning if additional funding will help with some of the problems that have been on-going? There is nothing in this article that helps me to determine if additional funding will help. Or if our city school district is prepared to make changes.

[CRedstone]

02:14 PM on 08/27/2010

This article is not about education reform but privatizing our school systems nationwide. There are many large organizations who are pushing for this. Turning our schools over to for-profit companies is an unthinkable and undemocratic way to educate. The private contractors in Iraq and their misdeeds and exorbitant salaries are a great example of the misdeeds that happen when our government starts writing blank checks in an attempt to solve our problems.

Go in, close them down, make them over but don't trust corporations to take care of education. Look at what the corporation has done to our oceans, our air, our land and our health all in the name of profit. Disgusting.

[PlayTOE]

04:13 PM on 08/27/2010

Well said, fanned # 33

[allis1]

12:14 AM on 08/29/2010

My sentiments exactly, public education is under attack and it's not about the quality of teachers it's about money, putting public money into private hands via vouchers. As you stated what will
americans gain? Not only will this open up the floodgates for corruption, it will change the face of America in ways many don't realize and not for the better.