The corporate manufactured crises in public education is a war that is in every state. Here’s one more example discovered in New Mexico. The carpetbaggers who are out to profit off children and tax payers are flooding every state buying elected and appointed public officials and the media.
While visiting his sister in Albuquerque, Paul Horton encountered the same corporate reform claptrap that he read regularly in the Chicago Tribune and sent the following letter to the editor:
“Dear Editor,
I read your banner article, “SBA scores in NM lower now than five years ago” with great interest. As a teacher with thirty-two years experience, I am very concerned with the obsessive focus on SBA scores in the article.
While I understand that lower test scores might be a concern, I am more concerned with the scripted response of Hannah Skandera, New Mexico Education Secretary designate.
Ms. Skandera is clearly on the bandwagon of a national education reform movement that is funded by the Walton Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council that is heavily funded by the Koch brothers.
Ms. Skandera clearly serves the interests of these organizations…
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