For Detroit’s Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/for-detroits-children-more-school-choice-but-not-better-schools.html
("Not better" est un très doux euphémisme)
Versement de l’argent public à des intérêts privés (en l’occurrence pour la création d’écoles « charters ») ou l’"#idéologie" de la « #libre_entreprise » à son paroxysme, pour des résultats délétères
Detroit schools have long been in decline academically and financially. But over the past five years, divisive politics and educational ideology and a scramble for money have combined to produced a public education fiasco that is perhaps unparalleled in the United States.
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Detroit now has more students in charters than any American city except New Orleans, which turned almost all its schools into charters after Hurricane Katrina. But half the charters perform only as well, or worse, than Detroit’s traditional public schools.
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The 1993 state law permitting charter schools was not brought on by academic or financial crisis in Detroit — those would come later — but by a free-market-inclined governor, John Engler. An early warrior against public employee unions, he embraced the idea of creating schools that were publicly financed but independently run to force public schools to innovate.
#lobbying #détournement_de_fonds_publics #enrichissement_de_riches aux dépends des #pauvres #Noirs #éducation #Etats-Unis