tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13850388.post5162016103649122978..comments2023-09-05T07:08:28.140-07:00Comments on solidaridad: Stoner Elementary community to hold protest against charter school co-location that has taken resources from home schoolRobert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13850388.post-63817854454514636552015-08-14T22:06:56.961-07:002015-08-14T22:06:56.961-07:00“Colocation is eviction... It doesn't mean sha...<i>“Colocation is eviction... It doesn't mean sharing, it means displacement.” — NY State Sen. Bill Perkins</i><br /><br />Thank you for sending this out Mr. Benitez. Thank you for leading the social justice struggle against this corporate charter chain's occupation of your local public school. Direct action and acts of resistance are the only effective means against these corporate privatizers. Using similar grass roots activism is how we were eventually able to get the CWC corporate chain out of our local public school — Micheltorena ES. Acts of resistance against privatization were the only thing we as a community had left, as the political establishment and media are beholden to the deep pocketed interests in the charter sector.<br /><br />I've taken the liberty of publishing your press release on K12NN and several other media outlets and social media platforms.<br /><br />Short: <a href="http://ow.ly/QVNrb" rel="nofollow">http://ow.ly/QVNrb</a> | <a href="http://thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2015/08/15/stoner-elementary-community-to-hold-protest-against-charter-school-co-location-that-has-taken-resources-from-home-school/" rel="nofollow">http://thewire.k12newsnetwork.com/2015/08/15/stoner-elementary-community-to-hold-protest-against-charter-school-co-location-that-has-taken-resources-from-home-school/</a><br /><br />Let us not forget that this is the same ICEF corporate charter chain that somehow "lost" millions and millions of taxpayer dollars. [1] Meanwhile their former "CEO" Mike Piscal is still at large [2] and public schools in many of our local public schools are without school libraries and other necessities.<br /><br />ICEF is notorious for enrolling a significantly low number of students with low incidence disabilities [3], and has a dubious reputation for counseling out students that pose a risk to their inflated test scores. Moreover, privately managed [4] ICEF is run by an unelected board of directors and headed by well-heeled corporate excessive Parker Hudnut, a "graduate" of the Broad Residency [5]. <br /><br />Keep resisting, and pay no attention to those asking you to engage in respectability politics. Once the corporate sector has their foot in the door, any talk of what's "best for both sides" is a cynical nod to the elimination of the public commons. Our children and communities deserve better.<br /><br />-----<br />[1] <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/28/local/la-me-0928-charters-20100928" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/28/local/la-me-0928-charters-20100928</a><br />[2] <a href="http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/2010/09/icef-public-schools.html" rel="nofollow">http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/2010/09/icef-public-schools.html</a><br />[3] <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/24674991/Data-Tables-Pilot-Study-of-Charter-Schools-Compliance-with-the-Modified-Consent-Decree-and-the-LAUSD-Special-Education-Policies-and-Procedures" rel="nofollow">https://www.scribd.com/doc/24674991/Data-Tables-Pilot-Study-of-Charter-Schools-Compliance-with-the-Modified-Consent-Decree-and-the-LAUSD-Special-Education-Policies-and-Procedures</a><br />[4] U.S. Census Bureau. (2011). <i>Public Education Finances: 2009</i> (GO9-ASPEF). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Print.<br />[5] <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31748-the-non-profit-industrial-complex-s-role-in-imposing-neoliberalism-on-public-education" rel="nofollow">http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31748-the-non-profit-industrial-complex-s-role-in-imposing-neoliberalism-on-public-education</a>Robert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.com