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Thus, what “slum clearance” did for the real-estate industry in the 1960s and ’70s, high-stakes testing will do for the charter industry: wipe away large swaths of public schools, enabling private operators to grow not school by school, but twenty or thirty schools at a time. Sort of like a Chamber of Commerce would to develop business.” Rather, must humbly acknowledge that a marketplace of school operators will…out-perform even the best direct-run system.” Hastings similarly suggests that the role of elected school boards be limited to “bringing to town more and more charter-school networks. Neerav Kingsland, the former CEO of New Schools for New Orleans, warns that superintendents “must not succumb to the temptation to improve schools through better direct operation. Recently, corporate-backed reform advocates have begun insisting that no public authority whatsoever be responsible for running schools. Since test scores are primarily a function of poverty, it’s no surprise that 80 percent of the Tennessee schools targeted for privatization are in Memphis, or that the Michigan and Wisconsin bills focus, respectively, on Detroit and Milwaukee. This year, Wisconsin legislators considered a bill that bypassed the middle step and simply required that low-performing public schools be replaced with privately run charters. In 2011, Tennessee and Michigan created special districts to take over low-scoring schools in both cases, the superintendent was specifically authorized to replace public schools with charters. The formula is simple: use standardized tests to declare dozens of poor schools “persistently failing” put these under the control of a special unelected authority and then have that authority replace the public schools with charters.
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What was accomplished by a hurricane in New Orleans is being pursued elsewhere by legislation.