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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If money is earmarked for certain things it is not privatized and not competitive and not based on teacher expertise. For the sake of DCPS and public schools, I'd suggest a new term for this money. Historically, money appropriated the furthest away from the community is the least effective. [/quote]

Privatization in education simply means that [b]public money is sent to private companies[/b]. If a school is required to buy iPads for teachers who don't want those iPads as a requirement for receiving money for, say, paying the electric bill, that is privatization because it means a deal was struck giving a private company a pipeline to school funds. This is the kind of privatization that runs rampant in the public schools. Similarly, schools are often required to use some kind of computer-based assessment system (or a dozen such systems). These systems are invariably made by Pearson or one of its subsidiaries. As a result, a school district may spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on licensing and maintaining programs that, once again, teachers don't want or need and actively despair, with all of that money going directly to one or two companies year after year after year.[/quote]

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