Voices Supporting Public Education become Louder and More Persistent

Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools came out yesterday and is already sold out and at #98 on the Amazon bestseller list -- an impressive showing.http://www.amazon.com/Reign-Error-Privatization-Movement-Americas/dp/0385350880/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q...

This is a must read for parents and taxpayers wondering what in the world is going on with the closing of schools.

It is a also a signal that the anti-public education forces -- who still have the Gates, Walton, and Broad war chest -- aren't going to be able to simply roll through an American institution with the ease that they did following the housing crisis.

Locally, Stephen Henderson of the Free Press no longer seems duped and caught off guard --http://www.freep.com/article/20130917/COL33/309170021/Stephen-Henderson-Michigan-s-busted-education-... -- although he is still following the befuddled state Superintendent Mike Flanagan who wants to "consolidate" districts without knowing whether that will help, hurt, cost or save money. (Mr. Flanagan, retire).

But it is a start.

Over at The Mackinac Center Gazette (Detroit News), there is a civil war or at least skirmish brewing. Tom McMillin -- a public education nightmare -- is scrambling to reinvent himself for a Senate run and has taken on John Englerhttp://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130916/OPINION01/309160004/1008/OPINION01/Engler-sells-out-Mich... over schools.

McMillin, who also doesn't wanted evolution taught in the schools, stands to be the next Senator representing BHSD!

The Michigan Prop A "Gang of 14", you see, never intended there shouldn't be public schools as current reformers do and some are realizing what a political disaster this has been -- especially now that Birmingham, Troy, and Bloomfield Schools are threatened.

Indeed, unlike bussing or ProP A or other school debates, it is dawning on folks that "education reform" this time around is something entirely different and that when most see what it means for their communities .....

Here, for example, is a succinct news TV story about Taylor schools. Imagine, if you will, in a few years, Bloomfield taxpayers giving the new BHHS to the state for pennies on the dollar:http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/taylor-school-district-inherits-inkster-students-unused-schools-b...

Even Patch and its Pearson based advertisers are going to have to work harder and faster to stop public education advocates from getting the word out about the "reign of error," which is indeed coming to an end -- one way or another.

See you in a couple of hours, Jason and Art, with yet another post from a public school kid with public school parents working at a public university. Try to keep up.