NOTE: A small section of this article originally mistook the KIPP Indy school with KIPP’s school in Gary. This has been corrected. UPDATE: As this Doug Martin story broke, word came down that a federal judge ruled in favor of the mayor’s decision to close The Project School. Additionally, Jason Kloth is getting a pay-raise. [...]
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Buying Mayor Ballard: More Truth About the Project School Closing
In my last piece, The Truth about the Project School Closing: The Indiana Corporate School Complex,” I noted how Indy mayor Greg Ballard was promoting a school privatizing movement full of crony capitalism, propaganda, and lots of money, one at odds with the community-led/social justice Project School. Therefore, the fact that Ballard, last year, accepted tons of [...]
Pot and Kettle Mind
Yesterday Steve at School Matters offered a post on Indy Mayor Greg Ballard’s decision to revoke TPS’s Charter (see Doug Martin’s thorough account here). I anticipated trouble by the title alone: Choice vs. standards at the Indianapolis Project School. Is that what this is about? It got worse. Stayed that way and ended that way. Steve maintained [...]
Losing Our Soul–Silencing Heart, Mind and Voice
If you haven’t read Doug Martin’s piece on the planned destruction of what remains of the ethos that is Community as well as the very heart of true Charity (take some time to think about the real meaning of this word), please set to it with all speed and attention. It is a detailed report [...]
Teaching as CIA Cover–Gülen Charter Schools, Dan Burton, and State Secrets
The following continues Doug Martin’s look into the Gülen charter school movement, which began with Islam and the Free Market of Privatized Education: “Friending” the Gülen Charter Schools. Besides noting U.S. charter school connections to the Fethullah Gülen Movement during her testimony in the Schmidt v. Krikorian case in Ohio on August 8, 2009,* former [...]
Islam and the Free Market of Privatized Education: “Friending” the Gülen Charter Schools
[Sit back and feast on this cornucopia of "insider-trading" in Indiana Education. Is it just me or is there just an odd linguistic "reality" called forth in this partnership? "Indian(a)" and "Turkey" equals an (immigrant) Pilgrim conquest of the "free market" in education? Which group is instructing which in the use of a fish to [...]
Corporate Foxes in the IN DOE Henhouse: The Chain School Gospel of Jeb Bush, Jon Hage and WalMart
When the Indiana Charter School Board recently approved two new Charter Schools USA schools to open in Indianapolis, the corporate school honeymoon was on. The East Indianapolis Charter Academy and the South Indianapolis Charter Academy, Charter Schools USA claimed, would be “feeder schools” for students to eventually enter the three other Indiana public schools the [...]
Imperial Philanthropy: Using Education Reform to Buy the Earth and Sky
Editor’s note: Doug Martin’s work supplies a kind of corrective to the simple “top-line” story and understanding of the education reform movement. It can be understood to be “about” management and assessment to enforce a worldview where production is only quantifiable and quality must ape the measurements of assessment; and that’s the kindest way to [...]
