This Is What It Looks Like When A City Fights For Its Schools

It’s pretty fashionable these days to pooh-pooh public schools. It seems like a wide swath of foundation dollars, corporate interests, and a big segment of both of our major political parties is pushing for a wholesale privatization of our education system. There’s only one problem: Nobody seems to have asked for input from any of the…



A little necessary context:
1. The SRC is the School Reform Commission a five-member unelected panel that has run Philadelphia’s schools since 2001.
2. Boston Consulting Group, mentioned at [00:54], is a management consulting group that has advised the SRC to close 37 public schools and open dozens of new charter schools.
3. If you’re interested in a more detailed look at this issue, check out this article in The American Prospect.
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