http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500809.htmlPHILADELPHIA -- Maxcine Collier had been principal of the 400-student Anderson Elementary School in Southwest Philadelphia for five years when, in 2001, she was told that a for-profit company, Edison Schools Inc., was going to take over the school's management from the Philadelphia School District.
Parents and teachers were apprehensive, she said. But more than three-quarters of Anderson's students were performing below grade level, according to Pennsylvania state testing standards. The school, in a neighborhood that borders suburban Upper Darby, housed many special-education students from other parts of the city
Anybody here see a problem with corporations running schools? I would say it's the beginning of the end but I've already said that about so many things. The line between civil government and corporate hegemonic government grows thinner and thinner...