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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'bookman old style'; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><br></font></span></font>Education is a Right! </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'bookman old style'; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;">The Socialist Case </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'bookman old style'; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;">for Defending Public Education</span><br>
</div><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">Thursday June 4th, 7:00pm</span><br style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">Haymarket People's Fund</span><br style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">
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</style><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> Politicians and the corporate media claim, straight-faced, that although hundreds of billions of tax dollars are available for military occupations and corporate bailouts, budget cuts to public education are an inevitable part of the "shared sacrifice" that all of us on "Main Street" must make. They say that failing schools are the fault of teachers unions, families and neighborhoods that don't value education, and students who don't taken advantage of the opportunities given to them. They point to corporate partnerships, "market" solutions, more testing, and merit pay for teachers as answers. But Corporate America's interest in education is not philathropic but strategic. They want our public money that is designated for public education flowing into corporate coffers, just as Enron capitalized on the deregulation and privatization
of energy, HMO's on the privatization of healthcare, and Halliburton and Blackwater have used the privatization and subcontracting of the military to bilk taxpayers and boost profits.<br> <br> They want to make us pay for their crisis and Wall Street has identified
education as “the next big growth industry” where they can find any remaining wealth to transfer away from people into to profits. According to one analyst,
“<span style="font-weight: bold;">education today has the growth potential that health investments did twenty
years ago</span>.” Jeffrey AF Romm, president of Knowledge Quest LLC, writes, "<span style="font-weight: bold;">The
education industry represents a $740 billion dollar market, second only to
healthcare as a percentage of gross domestic product</span>.” </span><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Michael Milken, the former
junk bond king, who spent two years in federal prison, has already invested $500
million into education-related companies</span>. <br><br><br><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Students are consumers and should pay the full
cost of their service, and borrow at market-set bank rates."<br></span></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--World Bank 1998 report on Education Reform, identifying the education market globally as a having $2 Trillion potential </span></font><br></div><br></div><style>
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<p style="margin-left: 80px;" class="MsoNormal">"Public education... has not outlived its usefulness to
this country, but unless it embraces the emerging education marketplace, its
power and significance will rapidly diminish as people choose superior free
market options... It's time for education to roll up its sleeves and play
hardball on capitalism's new frontier." </p>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">-- John McLaughlin, editor, <span style="font-style: italic;">Education Industry Report</span></span><br></div><br><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"From an investment perspective, this [education]
crisis has created an enormous opportunity and powerful momentum for those
companies with solutions to our educational problems</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"</span><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">-- <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Montgomery Securities (an American
investment banking firm, author of <em>The Emerging Investment Opportunity
in Education</em>)</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></span><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="1" face="times"><font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 13pt;">“The
education industry represents, in our
opinion, the final frontier of a number of sectors once under public
control that have either voluntarily opened or have “been forced” to open up to private enterprise. Indeed, the education industry represents the largest market
opportunity since health-care services were privatized during the
1970’s. From the point of view of private profit, The K–12 market is the 'Big
Enchilada'”</font></font></font><font size="1"><br></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="1">-<span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">- </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Montgomery Securities (an American
investment banking firm, author of <em>The Emerging Investment Opportunity
in Education</em>)</span></font><br style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span><style>
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</style><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“At present, almost all the elite Americans,
with corporate chiefs and fashionable economists in the lead are utterly
convinced that they have discovered the winning formula for economic success –
the only formula – good for every country, rich or poor, good for all
individuals willing and able to heed the message, and of course, good for elite
Americans: PRIVATIZATION + DEREGULATION + GLOBALIZATION = TURBO-CAPITALISM =
PROSPERITY”. <br></span></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--Thomas Frank, <span style="font-style: italic;">One Market, Under God</span> </span></font><br></div><br><h3 style="font-weight: normal;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"><font size="2"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Of course, we are the public sector. So there are certain financial
transactions that we are not allowed to make with the private sector.
That is when the universities come in - they are that nexus where those partnerships can come together" </span></font><br></font></h3><h3 style="font-weight: normal; margin-left: 40px;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"><font size="2">--A representative from the federal Economic
Development Administration at the Grand Inauguration of the "Venture Development Center" at Umass Boston last month. </font></h3><style>
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</div><p style="margin-left: 45pt;"><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span>"In
a sense, what's going on now in our school system is exactly what went on in East Germany
in automobile production. When you have a collective, single, monopolistic
producer, inevitably that producer produces a very poor product.... With no
competition, some people do very well, but most people do badly. The same thing
is true of our current school system; it's a socialist system, the largest
socialist entity in the United
States , other than perhaps the military. As
a result, like all socialist systems, it produces a low-quality product.... And
it benefits a small group of people; in this case, primarily the unions, at the
expense of a large group of people." <br></p><p style="margin-left: 104.52pt;">--Milton Friedman, whose last project before his death was to push for the full privatization of New Orleans public schools in the wake of the "opportunity" created by Hurricane Katrina<br></p><div style="margin-left: 80px;">
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</style><font style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The idea that the so-called “free market” can
solve social problems is a fraud. Unregulated Free market capitalism has created this economic crisis and now the people at the top want us to pay for it!</span></font>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span></span><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><br></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">While Mayor Menino and the School Committee are saying that cuts to our public education are necessary due to
the economic crisis - layoffs, school closings and school consolidations, fee hikes in higher ed, and the introduction of more charter schools are just the latest measures
in an attack on public schools that began well before the recession. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><br>Education
is a right, and that is not up for negotiation.<span>
</span>Especially in the wealthiest country in the world—which is currently
“investing” in two occupations simultaneously— education from early childhood to
post-doctoral study can and should be guaranteed for all.<span> </span>You’re invited to a meeting to discuss what
is behind the attack on public education, and how to defend it.<span> <br> <br> </span>We need to talk about how a struggle for
quality education for all, involving teachers, unions, families and students,
is part of a fight for a better world.</span><p><br></p><p>
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</div></div></div><dl class="search-results"><dt class="title"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/2009/05/19/battle-intensifies-in-la-schools">Battle intensifies in LA schools</a><span class="dateline"><span class="byline">By Gillian Russom and David Rapkin</span> | 5/19/09</span></dt><dd><div class="teaser"><p>After
a judge issued an order banning a one-day strike against layoffs set
for May 15, LA teachers are continuing to mobilize as the stakes get
higher.... author, members of United Teachers <strong>Los</strong>
Angeles, report on the union's response to a court order barring a
planned ... impact that class size increases will have on students' <strong>education</strong>.
Wearing t-shirts reading "Don't raise class size" and "Restrain ...</p>
</div> </dd><dt class="title"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/2009/05/04/a-dog-ate-the-budget">A dog ate the education budget</a><span class="dateline"><span class="byline">By Jesse Hagopian</span> | 5/4/09</span></dt><dd><div class="teaser"><p>My
students would blush at the litany of half-truths that Washington
lawmakers use to justify a budget that cuts $800 million from public
schools.</p>
</div><div class="results"><p>... Margarita Prentice has no sympathy for teachers facing <strong>education</strong> budget cuts (Joe Mabel)
NO ONE ever said teaching middle ... representatives maintain they are champions for public <strong>education</strong> because of their much-touted House Bill 2261 that promised to ...</p></div> </dd><dt class="title"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/2008/06/02/school-privatizers-agenda">What's on the school privatizers' agenda?</a><span class="dateline"><span class="byline">By Gillian Russom and Sarah Knopp</span> | 6/2/08</span></dt><dd><div class="teaser"><p>Behind
the rhetoric about improving education, the goal of privatization is to
undercut and destroy a system of public control over schools.</p>
</div><div class="results"><p>... Teaser: Behind the rhetoric about improving <strong>education</strong>, the goal of privatization is to undercut and destroy a system of ... for 23 years. He is the author of several articles on <strong>education</strong>, including "The Corporate Surge Against Public Schools," co-written ...</p></div> </dd><dt class="title"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/2009/04/07/stickin-to-the-teachers-union">Stickin' to the teachers union</a><span class="dateline"><span class="byline">By Jesse Hagopian</span> | 4/7/09</span></dt><dd><div class="teaser"><p>From
Baghdad to Washington, D.C., anti-labor forces want to neutralize
teachers' unions. But teachers are fighting back in defense of schools.</p>
</div><div class="results"><p>... Kristof stated in his out-of-pitch March 10 column : "<strong>Education</strong> reform is going to mean challenging the unions, and Obama signaled ... voices have been as off-key as George W. Bush's <strong>Education</strong> Secretary, Rod Paige, when he called the largest teachers' union in ...</p></div></dd><dt class="title"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/2009/04/30/using-civil-rights-to-sell-privatization">Using "civil rights" to sell charter schools</a><span class="dateline"><span class="byline">By Brian Jones</span> | 4/30/09</span></dt><dd><div class="teaser"><p>Wealthy proponents of charter schools claim they want to advance racial justice--even as public schools become more segregated.</p>
</div><div class="results"><p>... from a hedge fund to lend its name and energies to the <strong>Education</strong> Equality Project (EEP) . The EEP boasts supporters such as ... up their tailored silk sleeves to fight for equality in <strong>education</strong>.
Their Web site cries out against the inequality of our current <strong>education</strong> system--displaying statistics about the <strong>education</strong> gap, and notably, ...</p></div></dd><dt class="title"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/02/can-you-afford-college">Can you afford college?</a><span class="dateline"><span class="byline">By Nicole Colson</span> | 2/2/09</span></dt><dd><div class="teaser"><p>For
a growing number of people faced with rising tuition and loans drying
up, the grim answer to that question is: "Not anymore."</p>
</div><div class="results"><p>...
THE CONVENTIONAL wisdom is that getting a college <strong>education</strong>
is part of the "American Dream"--and a prerequisite to a good job and
... difficult or even impossible to pay for school--and higher <strong>education</strong> is becoming more a preserve of the haves in U.S. society than it has ...</p></div> </dd></dl>--------<br>
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