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DESCRIPTION:3/12 SF Forum:\nStopping The Destruction Of Public Education-How Charters 
 Are Wrecking Our Public School System\nSaturday March 12, 2016 7:00 PM\n518 
 Valencia St.\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nDonation Requested\n\nInitial 
 Speakers:\nDr. Roxana Marachi, Associate Professor San Jose State 
 University Education Department\nSharon Higgins, Education Expert On Gulen 
 Magnolia Schools and Publicly Funded Religious Charters\n\nThe survival of 
 public education and teacher unions is the question of the day. The biggest 
 billionaires and tech barons of the world including Gates, Zuckerberg, 
 Broad, the Fisher Family-KIPP and the Walmart Walton family have funded a 
 massive billion dollar privatization program through charters and testing 
 schemes such as "Common Core". This has ended up re-segregating the schools 
 and scapegoating teachers throughout the United States blaming them for the 
 crisis in education.\nThis organized union busting and privatization drive 
 has yet to be answered politically through a state and national 
 education/action campaign. Tens of thousands of public school teachers have 
 been driven out of the profession by being put in rubber rooms, bullied and 
 terrorized. This attack has particularly focused on senior teachers and 
 union activists and supporters. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being 
 spent on local school board elections just in California  by these 
 billionaires to put pro-charter privatization candidates into power who 
 then vote on more charters and privatization in school districts.\nThere 
 has also been a systemic criminal conflict of interest by these elected and 
 appointed privatization ideologues both on local school boards and state 
 boards such as the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and the State Board 
 Of Education.\nAdditionally,  religious cults and fundamentalists are using 
 the deregulated charter school laws to pushed their religious schools in 
 California and throughout the country. Fundamentalists like Dennis Snyder 
 who runs the Escondido Charter School Chain in San Diego County and 
 Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish Islamic Imam  who runs the Magnolia chain in 
 California are getting millions of dollars to support their religious 
 schools and cults. This growing systemic corruption in bonds and kickbacks 
 is growing by the day.\nCo-locations that bust up public schools which was 
 allowed by Proposition 39 and "Common Enrollment" are all tools being used 
 to systemically destroy the public education system and organizing a 
 statewide fight against these policies is vital.\nThere is a campaign to 
 stop all public funding of privately run charter schools in California and 
 this will also be addressed at this educational forum. A statewide ballot 
 initiative has now been certified to put this in front of California voters 
 in November 2016 and begin the historic debate.\n\nSponsored by\nVoices 
 Against Privatizing Public Education- Repeal Charter School Laws 
 Committee\nhttps://www.facebook.com/CitizensForEducationRestoration/\nUnited 
 Public Workers For Action www.upwa.info\n\nFor more 
 information\ninfo(at)upwa.info\n(415)282-1908\n\nFor more 
 information\nhttps://notocharterschools.wordpress.com\nhttp://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com\nhttp://eduresearcher.com\n 
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SUMMARY:SF Forum: Stopping The Destruction Of Public Education-How Charters Are Wrecking Our Publi
LOCATION:518 Valencia St/16th St.\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/02/18783561.php
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