http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/eric-cantor-school-choice-101912.html?hp=l5
first this is a not so clever thinly veiled attempt to privatize public schools, it were not that the guy who would not vote to give his home state Va. disaster relief or Sandy victims unless they can offset the expense in other words if we can't cut something else you need we won't help you.
buzz words charter schools and vouchers.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor vowed Wednesday to protect and promote school choice programs and attacked Democratic politicians, including New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, for seeking to block the growth of charter schools and voucher programs.Long an advocate of school choice, Cantor used a speech at the Brookings Institution to vow that Republicans would defend what he called an “education revolution” that has shifted power away from traditional public schools and put it in the hands of parents.Many states now allow parents to get tax-funded vouchers to send their children to private or parochial schools or chose from an array of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run. “Right now, school choice is under attack,” Cantor said.“It is up to us in this room and our allies across the nation to work for and fight for the families and students who will suffer the consequences if school choice is taken away.”
again this is not beneficial to poor and low income, and how is their choice you're poor public school is free charter voucherized schools are not these kids no nothing of those kind of schools that are really designed for profit.
Cantor cited de Blasio’s campaign promise to charge rent to the wealthiest charter schools, some of which receive millions in private donations along with public education funds.
and there it is the real reason to avoid extra payout of the for profit schools disguised with vouchers who pays for them?
planting the seeds of privatized education, when you commercialize public schools you get the same thing that republicans are doing in higher education, eventually the vouchers will change or come with co-pays, like they say their is no free lunch or education now. they want to make the kids there to learn to become janitors and help foot the bill. like i said leave them alone and they will spill the beans out of their own pot.Under the Bloomberg administration, charters were permitted to set up shop for free in existing district schools; they often took over several floors in buildings that were not being used to maximum capacity.That policy, known as co-location, helped the number of charters soar from fewer than 20 to more than 180 during the Bloomberg administration, but it also caused significant tension among students, parents and school administrators. De Blasio pledged during thecampaign that he would consider a moratorium on co-locations.
