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Private, for-profit education companies have a long history of being rip-offs, especially when government funds pay for students. [[Virtual Charter Schools]] are the latest [[ALEC]]-sponsored attempt at undermining public schools through corporatization of education. They target communities of color or poverty which are dispossessed and disempowered. | Private, for-profit education companies have a long history of being rip-offs, especially when government funds pay for students. [[Virtual Charter Schools]] are the latest [[ALEC]]-sponsored attempt at undermining public schools through corporatization of education. They target communities of color or poverty which are dispossessed and disempowered. | ||
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| + | The greatest gains for educational achievement in the US would come from reducing poverty -- increasing the socioeconomic status of the poorest students. Vouchers, charters, privatization and other libertarian/conservative proposals can be viewed as strategies to pit the middle and lower classes, racial groups, ethnic groups, etc. against each other to distract from solving the real problem: [[poverty]]. | ||
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