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Mayor Bloomberg plans to make drastic changes concerning the Public School system. Most notably, he intends to push it towards becoming a more privatized institution.
According to New York Daily News, he will propose:
• Doubling the number of schools in Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s experimental “Empowerment Zone” from the current 300 to more than 600 - nearly half of all schools in the system.
• Hiring private education companies as consultants or managers to oversee smaller networks of schools within the Empowerment Zone. They also would run some support services for the entire system.
• Further reducing the 10 existing regional school districts into five super districts - one for each borough.
The “Empowerment Zone” is an initiative the provides each principal with additional money and autonomy in exchange for the signing of a performance contract that acknowledges that, should her school demonstrate slow progress, she will be held responsible. This, most likely, would result in the loss of her job.
People are concerned about these news developments and fear that it will lead to the overall privatization of public schools. For instance, while public officials, such as Bloomberg, are held accountable for monitoring the principal’s actions, it is possible that they will pass the responsibility to private companies. They could justify their actions by calling them “advisors” or “consulters.”
Bloomberg will be defending these changes next week.
Mike’s ed shakeup [New York Daily News]
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