“Public schools meet all of the needs of all of the people without pleasing anyone. A better system (vouchers and charter schools) would foster education freedom and quality.”
—American Legislative Exchange Council 1985 publication Education Source Book on improving education.
“I have twenty-five thousand dollars to fix this problem: twenty thousand for you and five for me.”
—Inci Akpinar, vice president of Atlas Texas Construction & Trading which operated Abramson Science & Technology Charter School in New Orleans, speaking to Department of Education investigator Folwell Dunbar, who was looking into reported irregularities at the school. Dunbar recommended revoking the school’s charter. Dunbar was fired. Abramson’s charter has been revoked.
“It’s not just freshly painted walls and new textbooks that have Kenilworth Middle School parents talking – the curriculum and goals of the school are getting remodeled as well.”
—Hype by Pelican Educational Foundation in Promising an educational revolution with the conversion of Kenilworth Middle School to Kenilworth Science and Technology Charter School in the same mold as Abramson in August of 2009.
Louisiana Voice 
Ouch!
Way to go, Tom!
Did you hear anything about the lunch that Jindal was hosting today to talk about privatizing more education systems? A very small group was hand invited to this deal, retired education department personnel had gotten word of it…