<p>Texas has some charter schools for pushing more low income kids to colleges (Challenge academies?). I was surprised to see that Penn used them as a resource to recruit some of the low income first gen students same way as they use QB.</p>
<p>Would either Bill or Melinda please call me. I’d like to know if my kid’s science project is done or not. - Thanks</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Penn application numbers increase by one](<a href=“http://www.thedp.com/article/2013/01/penn-application-numbers-increase-by-one]The”>Penn application numbers increase by one | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>
<p>"Furda also said that there is broad diversity in this year’s applicant pool — geographically, racially and socioeconomically.</p>
<p>He credits this partially to the ongoing Penn — Knowledge is Power Program partnership, a program in its first year that works to identify and recruit students from underserved areas.</p>
<p>Already, eight students have been admitted to Penn’s Class of 2017 through the KIPP partnership, which operates mostly in the Texas area."</p>
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<p>There is nothing altruistic about what the teachers unions have been doing in education for decades, either. I think Gates’ motives are purer than theirs.</p>
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^ Based on Gates’ political leanings, I would be quite surprised if he supports privatization of education.*</p>
<p>Are you confusing him with his father?</p>
<p>“Education is not an engineering problem to be solved with more data.”</p>
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<p>“Are you confusing him with his father?”</p>
<p>I go by where his donations go/or who he hangs out with.</p>
<p>I heard Windows 8 actually includes a hidden process to control everyone’s dogs.</p>
<p>Privatizing education is an endeavor led by many liberal politicians - sometimes referred to as neo-liberals. You have to investigate which educational reform entities they are contributing to.</p>
<p>FYI, charter schools are not part of a movement to privatize public education. All you need to know is that Al Shanker was a proponent of the creation of charter schools to understand that it was a stratagem to delay the inevitable collapse of a monopolistic system. Charter schools are part of the public system of education, as the schools, as the name says, only operate under a public school charter. </p>
<p>Supporters of privatization, or better stated, supporters of a relaxing of the funding monopoly that protects the public system of education are on the fence regarding the charter schools as many have been set up to fail. </p>
<p>At best, what our country could and should hope for is a depoliticization of the education system and lesser role played by the trade unions. </p>
<p>As usual, the US will only do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities. Just as has done for the past six decades in education. We will have to hit rock bottom before realizing how bad the current system truly is.</p>
<p>But relax. You will never see the changes, and neither will your children. There is hope for your grandkids!</p>
<p>Translating from xiggi-speak: “Privatization” takes many forms. The most common these days are turning over failing public schools to private companies (non-profit or for-profit) to operate under management contracts, and awarding public charters and a per-pupil share of public school funding to schools established and run by private companies. However, some people, and most notably the Catholic church, would like to see public funding of education completely voucherized, so that kids could take their share of the public dollars to any accredited school, public or private, and make up the difference in tuition if the school did not accept the voucher as full payment. There have been experiments with limited voucherization to replace specific failing schools, but nothing approaching full voucherization anywhere, as far as I know.</p>
<p>A voucher system might or might not be accompanied by total or partial withdrawal of government from operating schools, turning them some or all over (or selling some) to private operators.</p>
<p>One of the things (hardly the only thing, but an important one) that leads people to support these ideas is the belief that it may be easier to blow the entire public education system up than to achieve meaningful reforms to the current system in the face of the union contracts and the political clout of the teachers’ unions.</p>
<p>The creation of charter schools is a key component of privatization. Hedge fund managers love charter schools - nice tax break with them. The charter schools can suck the life out of nearby traditional public schools. As usual, just follow the money.</p>
<p>What Cartera said.</p>