Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.