{"id":383569,"date":"2018-11-04T03:16:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/are-charter-schools-an-innovation\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T03:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T02:16:35","slug":"are-charter-schools-an-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/are-charter-schools-an-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Charter Schools An \u201cInnovation\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Charter school supporters and promoters never tire of repeating the banality that \u201ccharter schools are an innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation\u201d has become one of many hackneyed buzzwords in the neoliberal lexicon. Everyone is under intense pressure to blindly embrace \u201cinnovation\u201d at full velocity, no matter how irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>Other closely-related and worn-out neoliberal catchwords include: \u201cdata-driven,\u201d \u201cresults-oriented,\u201d \u201cperformance-based,\u201d \u201ccompetition,\u201d \u201cchoice,\u201d \u201cefficiency,\u201d and \u201caccountability.\u201d Ludicrous phrases like \u201csystems leader\u201d are also appearing on the neoliberal scene.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the neoliberal world has become a comi-tragedy, a joke, a cynical dystopia saturated with dysfunction and irrationalism of all sorts; everything is upside down and incoherent, causing many to experience mental, emotional, and physical problems.<\/p>\n<p>Neoliberalism offers only a bleak scenario for society, something no amount of voting in an outmoded and discredited political system can change. The only thing the two-party system of the rich has achieved effectively over the years is preventing progress that favors the people. Progress will again be a casualty in the November 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>While they are constantly cast as an \u201cinnovation,\u201d charter schools are nothing more than pay-the-rich schemes that are multiplying with each passing year. They are \u201cinnovative\u201d only in the sense that they reject evidence more than others and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/are-charter-schools-an-innovation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter school supporters and promoters never tire of repeating the banality that \u201ccharter schools are an innovation.\u201d \u201cInnovation\u201d has become one of many hackneyed buzzwords in the neoliberal lexicon. Everyone is under intense pressure to blindly embrace \u201cinnovation\u201d at full velocity, no matter how irresponsible. Other closely-related and worn-out neoliberal catchwords include: \u201cdata-driven,\u201d \u201cresults-oriented,\u201d \u201cperformance-based,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}