Mike Petrilli. Your Ohio charter schools are lousy for kids.
February 23, 2012
Mike Petrilli is a charter booster for the right-wing Fordham Foundation.
He’s never seen a public school he likes or a charter he doesn’t.
Even his own crappy ones in Ohio.
Almost 2,400 students are in Fordham charter schools that rank in the bottom half of all of Ohio’s schools. Why hasn’t Fordham been able to translate SB5 like tools into educational success in the many years they have been sponsoring these charters?
They are unencumbered by unionized teachers, state mandated regulations, all the things that should add up to a corporate education reformer’s brightest dream. Yes their results are poorer than the majority of Ohio’s traditional public schools, who allegedly are held back by unions, bad teachers, and outdated rules.
How can Fordham possibly have any credibility on the issue of education reform when their corporate reform ideas when implemented are delivering such real world lackluster results? When their performance is worse than the majority of traditional schoold they would seek to supplant.
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The point, of course, is not to build good schools but to weaken and eventually break the last union of any size. And here Mr. Mike sounds as if he’s doing an excellent job.